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Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by mulmen on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:33AM (#26190887)
But does anyone say 1/8th centimeter? Seems easier to just drop down to millimeters at that point. Which is fine, but it loses out on the convenience of fractions.
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Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by onion2k on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:31AM (#26191541)
People do say things like 1.25mm, which is 1/8th of 1 cm.

Presumably someone who uses Imperial would say 5/128th inches if they wanted to describe something that's equivalent to 1mm?

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Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by Evidlo on Friday February 19, 2021 @11:42AM (#26194915)
Most likely they would use mils/thou.

25mils ~ 1mm

Or 1/16in as others have said.

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Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by Hextinium on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:34AM (#26202621)
40 mils ~ 1 mm

1000 mils / 25.4 mm = 39.3

This simple fact still seems wrong to me somehow.

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Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by Evidlo on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:51AM (#26202729)
Brain fart
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