That's assuming that one bit is one mil, yes?
I've seen Protel measure mils up to 3 or 4 decimal places.

That would make a difference.

TC

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Sent: Thursday, 5 May 2005 4:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [PEDA] negative net length?

On 5/4/05 11:50:51, you wrote:

>> Turns out to be a total of roughly 350 inches (!)
> 
> Yes. No wonder there was overflow. I think the basic internal database
> unit is the microinch, and I would guess that it is a binary
> representation. 

I didn't quite follow here.. Even if a microinch was the internal unit, a
standard 4 byte unsigned integer would be able to hold 4.3e9 microinches,
or 4300 inches. Close, but not quite there. And even if they had used
signed integer (now why would that be?), it's still over 2000 inches. 

Gerhard

 
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