need lathe help in Phoenix ?

Not only did they _not_ select the correct one, they selected one that refers to _another_ multiplier. Yes, my respect for this system and its creators is going up by the minute!

Regards,

Robin

The automotive industry has its own SAE wire guage sizes, which are, of course, different from (smaller than) AWG guages.

;-)

Don't forget the circular mil-foot. For example, Nichrome (60) wire is

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Interestingly the use of "M" to denote thousands predates the rationalization of units and prefixes. One of the most common places to find this is in old purchasing doucuments. This goes back a long way.

Jim

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Hum - how about the mil for angle measurement in Military flight and ?gunnery ?

I have a nice large protractor that is in mils 0-500 for the 0-180 degrees. I don't know if the military chose mil from old gunnery methods and tables or did it for state secret stuff. The math - trig and such had new tables for mil.

Martin

Try Roman numerals. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.