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Steve Mouzon
Joined: 16 May 2004
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Location: Miami Beach
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 Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| I'm set up for fractional inches... but not for 1024ths. I'm set up for 1/8ths, but like the old method where if the dimension isn't actually an increment of 1/8", then it would show it in decimal form so that you know you've got a funky number. That's the test of a good number... does it show up fractional or decimal. You don't even have to read the number... just a quick glance tells you if it's fractional... or ideally, even inches... or if it's decimal. Decimal is by definition gobbledygook in my world, except in the rare instances when I'm actually entering a non-fractional number, in which case, I'm highly aware of it. |
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Derek
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Matt
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Location: Sterling, Virginia
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:07 am Post subject: |
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| I didn't know there was such a thing as a 1,024th of an inch, actually. |
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ValmontR
Joined: 19 May 2004
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Location: Chattanooga, TN
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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While most of our work is measured in millimeters, the pipework is measured in tenths of a millimeter, and a few parts are even measured in hundredths of a millimeter. 1/1024" is approximately 0.025 millimeter. To avoid moving decimal points and different units the base of everything is the millimeter.
I love metric.
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Matt
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Location: Sterling, Virginia
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| actually, 1/1,024" when drawn at quarter inch scale is equal to 1/49,152". You must have an awful fine printer over there, Steve. |
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