Transposition type indeed! Thanks for catching it. (If you check my 
calculations, I was clearly using 72 pt/in)

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> On Feb 22, 2020, at 3:36 PM, Marco S Hyman <m...@snafu.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> But a typographical  point is a unit of distance. There are 27 points per 
>> inch. (I.e., a typographical point is 0.0139 inches or 0.353 mm).
> 
> Transposition typo? There are 72 points/inch.  The given inch and mm values 
> are correct if rounded to 3 digits.

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