Sam wrote:
Mary Fisher wrote:
"Sam" wrote in message
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viince wrote:

I think if he'd put 5.3333332 ozs. of flour instead of 5.3333333, the
bread wouldn't be so flat.


no, the problem was baking time: 35" !

S.



No - the " symbol also means minutes.

common use in US-English language space appears to be:

' - foot , " - inch

and, apparently:

' - minute, " - second

Where do you find the " also meaning minutes - AU/UK-English?

A web reference is appreciated.

The only - kind of matching - reference I could find was:

Use the straight single and double quotes ' and " only to denote
minutes, seconds, feet, and inches.

That's from:
http://www.poynton.com/notes/typesetting/index.html

and the author is from Canada.

Sam

And the archaic thirds! ''' (For which we do not have single symbol...)