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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Significant digits in a float?
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 19:48:20 -0400
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On Tue, 06 May 2014 09:51:25 -0500, Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On 5/1/14 9:06 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>> The N4-ES and the N4-T (mine) are essentially the same rule. The N4-ES
>>> on the site is yellow (mine is white) and the site rule indicates Picket
>>> & Eckel Inc. (that's where the E comes from)  Also the the ES states
>>> Chicage Ill USA where the T states Made in USA.
>>
>> 	ES was for "Eye-Saver" -- the yellow background vs the bright white of
>> the other models.
>
>    Actually, I think you're right. I never used the a yellow rule, but 
>I will say that my N4-T never caused me any eye-strain (but I was 
>younger then).
>
	T was "Traditional" (ie; black on white)

>    The N4-T was a flat white also... very easy to read.  I really don't 
>know what all the 'yellow' hype was all about.

	Same thing as yellow chalk on a green board, vs white chalk on a black
board... Less extreme brightness levels, focusing on where the eye is most
sensitive (yellow-green)
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/