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Originally posted by sanddrag
1 SHU = 14 3/4 inches. 1 bin in standard position is 15 3/4 high. So according to the SHU stick starting with 1, a bin would be above the 2 mark already.
Will someone clarify all of this really simply please?
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Imagine that the SHU measuring stick were the X-Axis of a graph. The question, really, is where is the zero of that graph. Is it at floor level, or is it one SHU below floor level.
By the previous descriptions of scoring, the zero was one SHU below floor level. FIRST has changed this so that it now rests at floor level.
<14.75" = 0 (i.e., no bin, broken bins, etc.)
14.75"-29.50" = 1 (a single bin, at 15.75", falls into this category)
etc.
This is clear when you consider why they lowered the SHU measurement to 14.75". See, if the floor were 1, it would be as you said, and a single bin would be 2 SHUs tall. But, since the floor is 0, that single bin is now 1 SHU tall. Furthermore, with an SHU of 15.75", and while rounding down, two nested bins would not be tall enough to break the 31.5" threshold and would round down to be a stack of 1.
The new SHU measurement, coupled with the change to rounding down makes a lot of sense. I get it now. I like it better this way. One bin should count as one bin, regardless of its orientation.