On Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 2:13:19 PM UTC-8, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message
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With a digital display, only one dial is required, can't do that with
analog.

With a digital readout - you get to do the math. Be that inches,
millimeters, hours, seconds, degrees (arc) or degrees (temperature)
miles per hour, furlongs per fortnight, or parsecs in the old
Republic.

I'd really like a one-dial/two pointers (clock style) analog display on (for instance) a lathe
threading operation. Watching to see the numbers flicker and approach zero
is perilous when the tool is about to hit the thread's shoulder, I'd really prefer a coarse zero/fine zero
dial instead of numeric readout.

Screens are cheap, a readout with both options is kinda trivial in hardware, just takes
some software support to get the display to update often enough to be seamless.