"Prometheus" wrote in message
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I see your point, but a measurement is not always just a measurement-
the spec sheets I get at work from the engineering dept. are usually
fairly straight-forward, 29.375" and the like, but every once in a
while I get some oddball dimension like 9.007" Ever try to measure
.007" with a tape measure? I like to nail all my parts dead on, but I
don't care to make any bets on the accuracy of a cut measured in
1/128ths of an inch- I just round 'em down to the nearest sane
fraction.

Sheesh!!!


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Hey Prometheus,
Oddly enough, I was making this very point at work today. Many of the parts
they want us top attach to plates require holes of a strange decimal
reading, my tape only goes down to 32nds of an inch and my layout rule only
goes to half millimeters. Even that is tough to hit some days. (Lamenting
that yet another year has drained from the glass.)
Cheers,
Beej