From Andrew Bluemel
Chester
Further to Sainsbury’s recipe for lentil and tomato soup
(Feedback, 7 February)
and the interesting levels of precision mentioned in it, you might be
interested to know of a hotel in Torquay (The Osbourne) which gives the depth of
its outdoor swimming pool in metres to three decimal places—in other
words, to the nearest millimetre. However, it was unclear whether they had
included the meniscus formed on the surface of the water in their
measurement.
At work, my colleague drew my attention to an advertisement for a mail-order
“bridal” doll (“Katherine, Gibson Girl” from JPT America) whose height was given
as 40.64 centimetres, obviously an item of precision casting honed to the
nearest 100 microns, with the highly accurate placing of the doll’s headgear.
The advert even claims that “no detail has been spared”.
