Dennis wrote:

By the way, the proper conversion factor is 1:87.1. We don't need any more projects to bite the dust because someone used the wrong scale factor.

Good point. But I think if someone multiplies instead of dividing by 87, they should be able to tell they got a bad answer <g>.

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