Yes, machine shop use thousandths, but 99.9% of the population will never do that.
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mkwt@lemmy.world 2 days agoIn US machine shops if they’re getting down to that level of measurement, they’ll switch over to milli-inches.
Yes, milli-inches are an actual unit in use.
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Why don’t they use 1024^th^s? Gotta commit to the bit if you wanna be taken seriously.