3 ms·
I equally wish that more Americans used SI -- Farenheit is about as familiar to me as Rankine; I have been bitten by the US use of 'mil' to mean thousandths of
by azalemeth 5y ago
I equally wish that more Americans used SI -- Farenheit is about as familiar to me as Rankine; I have been bitten by the US use of 'mil' to mean thousandths of an inch whilst remaining how some en-gb engineers use it as inaccurate slang for mm. But this is a big distraction. Alas, I know that the whole reason we're in this pickle is that scientific literacy is low, and most people prefer short term gains over longer ones. In many ways the increased rate of increase in temperature might be a good thing, as it makes more people intuitively get that something is very, very wrong.
As an aside, most professional oceanographers or climate scientists I know are depressed, furious, or grant writing -- or a linear superposition of all three.
- donatj 5y ago> I have been bitten by the US use of 'mil' to mean thousandths of an inch Huh, I live in the US and I've only ever heard that called a thou but wikipedia backs you up. I'd think a mil would be a millionth of an inch.
- AussieWog93 5y agoI've always been under the impression it's pronounced "thou" but written "mil" - like how "pound" is "lb."
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoYou see mil in small scale CAD all the time, circuit boards and chips and footprints are close to 50% mils vs mm in my experience if not more. I use mm, but it’s often a pain when premade parts and libraries are in mils.
- Kluny 5y agoComes from mille, means thousand.
- bigyikes 5y agoMil is used in circuit board design, not sure about other fields. I find it very confusing