En réponse à Muke Tever <mktvr@...>:
>
> Why is the length stated before the width?
Not length stated before width, but longest size stated before shorter size. A
perfectly logical choice to me.
That doesn't seem to be
> normal
> measuring practice.
It is the normal practice though, everywhere I've ever seen it.
Is it a metric thing?
>
Probably an American vs. the rest of the world thing. So it may connected to
the metric thing too indeed.
Christophe.
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