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canadmos

canadmos

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chuffer said:
I had a meeting last week with an “aerospace” company in which I actually had to ask them to warn me when they switched units during our conversation. “Well, this in tenths, but we do this in microns, this in inches again and we measure this in mm…” I may be exaggerating a little, but they were definitely mixing and matching their units…
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What's the worst that could happen?
 
stoney

stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
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Haley's birthday party sleepover is chaotic. I've never been happier to sit in a closed office with headphones and study.
 
maxyedor

maxyedor

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chuffer said:
I had a meeting last week with an “aerospace” company in which I actually had to ask them to warn me when they switched units during our conversation. “Well, this in tenths, but we do this in microns, this in inches again and we measure this in mm…” I may be exaggerating a little, but they were definitely mixing and matching their units…
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Microns are for some unholy reason used way too much in otherwise imperial shops. I presume it's because verbally saying any measurement smaller than a tenth gets to be a bit of a mouthful, but it's goddamn confusing.

Of course I've worked with enough simpletons who can't decimal that I read off decimal dimensions as fractional equivalents most of the time. Telling a machinist the dimension is 3/16" +5 tenths, minus zero is technically accurate, but confusing as hell.

Numbers are dumb.
 
eric strt6

eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
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chuffer said:
I had a meeting last week with an “aerospace” company in which I actually had to ask them to warn me when they switched units during our conversation. “Well, this in tenths, but we do this in microns, this in inches again and we measure this in mm…” I may be exaggerating a little, but they were definitely mixing and matching their units…
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was this the same company that smashed a probe into Mars instead of a soft landing because one team used metric and the other used "Merican" units in the weight/speed calculation?
 
Westy

Westy

the teste
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Sleazattle
maxyedor said:
Microns are for some unholy reason used way too much in otherwise imperial shops. I presume it's because verbally saying any measurement smaller than a tenth gets to be a bit of a mouthful, but it's goddamn confusing.

Of course I've worked with enough simpletons who can't decimal that I read off decimal dimensions as fractional equivalents most of the time. Telling a machinist the dimension is 3/16" +5 tenths, minus zero is technically accurate, but confusing as hell.

Numbers are dumb.
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I am just happy I live in a world where a tenth is 100 times larger than a millionth.
 
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