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Re: WD-CSS21-20020802 section 4, "CSS 2.1 syntax and basic data types", substantive comments

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:13:48 -0500
Message-Id: <200211141913.OAA04143@no-knife.mit.edu>
To: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
cc: www-style@w3.org, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, Tantek Çelik <tantekc@microsoft.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> 

> "in: inches -- 1 inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters"
> 
> Does the Working Group really wish to limit precision?

How does this limit precision?  An inch (in the real world) is defined
to be precisely 25.4 mm (or 2.54 cm).

Boris
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