On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 15:56 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
Don't believe me? Fire up LibreOffice, try out 12 and 24 point
text,
and look at the on-screen ruler, or print it out.
There's approx 72 of *these* points in an inch.
IIRC it used to be 72.72 (my first job was working on an early
typesetting system at Cambridge University Press :-) However according
to Wikipedia a point is now officially 1/72 of an "international inch":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)
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