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Re: Ldraw cannon
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Date: 
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:32:08 GMT
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It figures.  Not only are we backwards by using feet and inches, we're
backwards with the date too.

Duane

Richard Dee writes:
(NZ: where we use "dd/mm/yyyy" and "apt/num Street", but have trouble
with the mandatory "state" field in addresses online)

hey, dd/mm/yyyy is also same as our format, and yes, we have no states,
too..:-)

The whole world uses this format, with the exception of Japan and the USA.



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(...) And paper sizes -- we use 8 1/2" x 11" (which has the ratio 1.294117647059), whereas every other sane country uses A4 (approximately 210mm x 297mm) with an exact ratio of sqrt(2). The DIN paper sizes fully rock because DIN An is exactly half a (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) The whole world uses this format, with the exception of Japan and the USA. (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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