by DBrawner » Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:32 pm
Thanks for finding the typos. So much for the US adopting the metric system. I should have caught them myself as we put together the proposal.
Frank is correct with the direction of conversion. MM to inches. The difference between our inch measurements and metrics finds it's origin in the failed IEC proposal way back when. I believe one of the requirements for submitting the proposal was that all measurements had to be metric. Our measurements, which used to be in very workable 1/8th inch increments, were converted to metric. After that proposal failed, our 1995 rules were based in part on the metric measurements from the IEC proposal. Someone converted the metric measurements back to inch measurements using 25.4 to 1 ratio. Due to rounding in both directions, inch to mm and then back to inch, our easy to use 1/8th inch measurements went away. While we now give the false sense of precision with our decimal inches,the class approved the measurements 10 years ago and they remain stable today. There were no measurement changes proposed in our motion.
Obviously, the two items that were pointed out were typos. If not, anyone using metric measurement would have a very low jib attachment and a really big hatch. I think we'll let common sense rule the day and correct the typos.
Dave Brawner