On Friday 01 November 2013 09:20:19 dave did opine:
> On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 12:29 -0400, Kent Reed wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Bertho Stultiens
<ber...@vagrearg.org>wrote:
> > > On 10/31/2013 04:03 PM, dave wrote:<...>
> > >
> > > > In addition the mil is also used as an angular measurement in
> > > > artillery. Close to but not identical to a minute of angle.
> >
> > I learned 'mil' as a unit of length measure from my father but the
> > machinist who took me under his wing when I was in graduate school
> > tried to train me to say 'thou' (short for 'thousandth of an inch')
> > both because of this conflict and because of the propensity for some
> > to think they heard 'millimeter.' Editors in publishing houses
> > usually didn't allow the word in engineering texts because 'thou'
> > means 'you' to them.
> >
> > > And you are seriously considering that your next canon is going to
> > > use G-code in the firing sequence??? :-)
> >
> > Well, at least this usage would be canon-ical.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kent
> >
> > PS - By international agreement the inch has been exactly 25.4 mm for
> > more than 50 years.
>
> Ouch! So I'm that far out of date. Hmmm. time to download some new brain
> cells. ;-)
>
> Dave
When you find out where, I need some too. :)
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