On 04/23/2007 07:20 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Monday 23 April 2007 10:11, my mailbox was graced by a missive > from Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who wrote: > >> (The difference of the inch between US international measurement >> and US survey measurement is too small to matter in respect >> to measurements of paper used within OpenOffice.org.) > > Cannot find on the web any reference to "US survey measurement". > > What is it ? > > Cheers, > > Ron.
http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Publications/appxc.cfm http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/Publications/appxc.cfm#4d For folks discussing US measurements; this might be of interest: http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/pubs.cfm http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/upload/SP_447.pdf [NIST SP 447, Weights and Measures Standards of the United States, A Brief History, (1976)] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
