A 3°C world has no safe place

Re:A 3°C world has no safe place by donatj on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:42PM (#27936443)

> I have been bitten by the US use of 'mil' to mean thousandths of an inch

Huh, I live in the US and I've only ever heard that called a thou but wikipedia backs you up. I'd think a mil would be a millionth of an inch.

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Re:A 3°C world has no safe place by SV_BubbleTime on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:06PM (#27936657)

You see mil in small scale CAD all the time, circuit boards and chips and footprints are close to 50% mils vs mm in my experience if not more.

I use mm, but it’s often a pain when premade parts and libraries are in mils.

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Re:A 3°C world has no safe place by AussieWog93 on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:02PM (#27936625)

I've always been under the impression it's pronounced "thou" but written "mil" - like how "pound" is "lb."

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Re:A 3°C world has no safe place by bigyikes on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:11PM (#27936695)

Mil is used in circuit board design, not sure about other fields. I find it very confusing

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Re:A 3°C world has no safe place by Kluny on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:08PM (#27936674)

Comes from mille, means thousand.

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