On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:07:07 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote in message
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Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet fired this volley in news:6sCdncLoho-
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Or maybe you guys are using a different kind of math....

Or MAYBE we work to such small tolerances that "tenths" in machining
jargon
means "tenth of a thousanth".

Lloyd

"Tenth" could be 1/10 of an inch, foot, mile, or in this case Mil:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mil
"a unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch"

It certainly could be. But..in machining..its got a very specific
meaning. .0001"


A mil (or mill) is also 1/1000 of a dollar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_(currency)
"Additionally, in finance the term is spelled "mil".

Under "Fiction" notice that Japanese isn't the only language with a
word for 10,000.

jsw


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