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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:58:43 +0200
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Stephen Leake wrote:

>18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes:
>
>> Yes, but it's far from the best and simplest solution.
>
>How far? 42 microns, no doubt :).

Just to mention that: Probably someone should define "far" here. In my
business this 42 microns would be *way* too far (more than an order of
magnitude). And I'm just talking about printing "Playboy" and such
stuff. ;-)

>(Extra points for identifying the
>cultural origions of that number :).

This one is easy. :-)

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