Madan wrote:

>I checked a couple of websites about the Mini-CD
>and they all have given the size either as
>8 cm or 80 mm.
>
>Some of them use the term 3 inch.  I hope ultimately
>the 8 cm prevails.

That's a worse inaccuracy (5%) than the so-called 3.5" diskette (a little
over 0.1%). 3" is only a whisker over 76 mm.

I hope 80 mm prevails, but I'd settle for 8 cm. The latter has the virtue of
being a small whole number, but the former is more consistent with the way
small dimensions are specified.

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

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