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Yeah, mils are a really strange measurement unit. I'm not sure who thought that 1/1000" would be a good standard.
by leggomylibro 9y ago
Yeah, mils are a really strange measurement unit. I'm not sure who thought that 1/1000" would be a good standard.
- semi-extrinsic 9y agoI think it harks back to older manufacturing processes, via plastics (where mils are used) back to metalworking. Machinists will usually talk about small distances in "thou", as in thousandths of an inch. Always cracks me up when AvE mentally converts 2.5/64" or some crazy shit into thou while thinking out loud, and then goes "metric fanboys be like whaaat?"