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At 2:42 PM -0800 on 2001/12/09, Robert Clark wrote:

>  The hole in the middle of a CD was sized to match
>  a coin local to where the CD standard was set?

	Correctamundo.  Philips and Sony were the two companies in 
question, and Philips chose the inside diameter to match the exact 
same size of the Dutch dime -- at 18mm, one of the smallest size 
coins currently in circulation in the world (if not the smallest).

	Now, does anyone know why the outside diameter was chosen to be 
the size it was?

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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