Bob La Londe on Sun, 4 Mar 2018 11:14:34 -0700 typed
in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

I don't know why, but I tend to like dial calipers much more than
electronic digital ones. Even for my one inch mic I prefer the analog
digital to an electronic digital.

Dial calipers, like analog clocks, don't just tell you the
measurement/time - but where you are in the inch/hour.
Yes .250 is a quarter of an inch. So is .275, for some values of
"one quarter". But a fractional dial shows you that either you are
not yet down to a quarter inch, or you're "oversize".

Just as 9:50 doesn't _show_ you that you have "that much" time
till 10.


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pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although far too often, Age travels alone."