Originally Posted by bulgie

Well maybe in an unscientific, regular-joe way, but 28.58 absolutely does not round to 28.5, ever, in an engineering sense. That's like saying a price of $15.99 is $15. People do it all the time but it's infuriating to me. OK maybe "fury" is putting it a bit too strongly...

I wonder if the guy who made the forging die (or casting or however they make these) mis-read the spec sheet. A 6 can look like a 5 if the light's not strong, or if he had a liter of Chianti on his lunch break. After it was "chiseled in stone" (metaphorically speaking), they may have decided to let it slide since there's no real-world impact to speak of and it would have been expensive to fix. I'm imagining Peewee Herman doing an endo off his bike, getting up and saying "I meant to do that!"