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Re:Pen plotters: not just output devices (2016) by rbanffy on Saturday May 01, 2021 @03:32PM (#27009114)
> Fun fact: HP-GL is equally compatible with metric and US customary measure as it uses 1/40 mm as its base unit. This just happens to be 1/1016 inches

That’s a brilliant hack.

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Re:Pen plotters: not just output devices (2016) by Gibbon1 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @02:19AM (#27012762)
Reminds me of a high precision delta-sigma ADC I saw that had nulls at 60 and 50 HZ.
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