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<[log in to unmask]>, John 
Pitman <[log in to unmask]> writing at 08:44:42 in his/her local time 
opines:-
>Please tell me this isn't so.....
>
>I bought a cubby house kit for  g'daughter for Xmas. Even though local 
>web site, the kit comes from USA. Sorting through all the wooden parts 
>and labelling them so it will assemble easily, I read the book 
>thoroughly. There is a table in the front explaining that the numbers 
>used to refer to std sizes (nominal) translate to actual sizes that are 
>smaller. I understand this, and know for instance that what we call 4 x 
>2 isnt really 4" by 2". Its under that due to dressing.
>
>But some of the sizes make me blink....    5/4      ??? What is that ? 
>The last time I saw a fraction like this was in primary school, being 
>taught to write it as either 1.25 or 1-1/4  . Eventually by a process 
>of elimination, it turns out that anything actually 1" thick is called 
>5/4, because it was originally 1.25"    .. I think?
>
>Is this common in US please?
>
>The other odd part, for a printed manual,  is that all the metric 
>equivalents have the decimal point off by one place....3/4 is given as 
>1.9mm.

They mean cm, don't they?

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Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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