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Re: 8 millimeters or 5/16 inches? (was Re: Scales (Was: New Lego page!)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.faq
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Wed, 21 Jul 1999 20:21:49 GMT
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Are you trying to measure the size of the brick, or the pitch of the bricks
when they are interconnected?
Steve
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:37:34 GMT, "Robert Munafo" <munafo@gcctech.com>
wrote:
> I've been looking for the discussions you alluded to but haven't found any yet.
>
> The FAQ entry for this question is here:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/faq/?n=376
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> and it doesn't actually answer the question asked (it gives ratios only, not
> actual dimensions). Neither do the message threads it refers to.
>
> In any case, the difference between 8 millimeters and 5/16 inches is about 1
> percent, so it should be easy enough to resolve any such debate just by
> measuring. For maximum accuracy, you would want to use construct a really long
> chain entirely out of 1x16 or 2x16 bricks that overlap by 8 studs each time,
> thus averaging the positions of 8 (or 16) studs at a time within each link of
> the chain. I'll conduct the experiment when I get home :-)
>
> - Robert Munafo
>
> In lugnet.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > [...]
> > The number I came up with is 384 : 1 -- assuming that the length of a 2 x 4
> > brick is 1.25 inches (1).
> > [...]
> > 1. Another, semi-related topic of debate which I have heard many times
> > before. :-,
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