On Thursday 03 Feb 2005 22:46, Bill Potts wrote: > Chris Keenan wrote: "Even more bizarrely, such cable can be bought from > European manufacturers in 100 m etc. reels, but the largest reel is '305 > m'!! I can find no rational explanation for this." > > If we assume a tolerance on large reels of �5 m, providing a nominal 305 m > should guarantee that nobody gets less than 300 m. The really lucky ones > will, of course, get 310 m.
Bill - I think you missed my point - these are 1000ft drums! > (By the way, in case it doesn't come through correctly, that's a > plus-or-minus symbol in front of the 5.) Looks fine for me. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Assoc.: metric.org.uk
