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Names work well because the actual size of a mattress isn't really important to most mattress discussions, nor are the measurements ever 100% accurate because o
by api_or_ipa 8y ago
Names work well because the actual size of a mattress isn't really important to most mattress discussions, nor are the measurements ever 100% accurate because of differences in material or manufacture. If I'm at the shop buying sheets and I remember my queen mattress is roughly ~1.5m wide, is it a 1.37m wide double mattress or a 1.53m wide queen mattress? Using a name placeholder avoids this ambiguity, a queen sheet will always fit a queen bed, within some margin of error, even accounting for differences in material: I imagine foam is more ductile than spring mattresses so might be made a bit bigger to account for this difference.
- twic 8y agoAnd yet, at the hardware store, you by two-by-four, and if someone suggested that that should be called a duke-size instead, you would think they were off their rocker.
- tbrownaw 8y agoBut that's also just a name, since they're not actually 2" x 4".
- oneplane 8y agoI guess that would work well in a situation where there is a limited set of sizes. We'd be stuck with about 15 different names here. I wonder if there is some size distribution difference, for example, almost all hotel beds in the US and the UK are too short, yet very wide for me.