[TowerTalk] Caps for 3" boom

[Don Havlicek]

Pat Chiles wrote:
> Which way is True North?  5 times thicker mean 5 times the thickness of 
> the object being compared.  

No .. five times thicker means SIX times as thick. ... what would ONE 
time thicker mean? .. one time as thick? .. no .. it means TWICE as thick.

[ ] = original thickness
[ ][ ]=new thickness .. ONE time THICKER .. but TWICE as thick!

Damned advertisers have everyone thinking screwy ..

What gets me are those ads that say "5 times less than ...." ... one 
time less than something is ZERO of something!

Don
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If the original cap was 1 inch thick then
> the new cap is 5 inches thick.  That's my story and I am sticking to it.
>