XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 7/13/2020 12:51 AM, Tom Gardner wrote:   
   > On 12/07/20 19:01, Pimpom wrote:   
   >> On 7/12/2020 11:15 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 05:23:31 +0100, Cydrome Leader    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> In sci.electronics.equipment Pimpom  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> My mechanical slide caliper has a resolution of 0.001 inch. This   
   >>>>> means that it can display measurements with a precision of 1 mil,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What if your caliper had a resolution of 1 mil +/- 3 counts on the last   
   >>>> digit?   
   >> .............   
   >>>   
   >>> In America, what is a "mill"?  In the UK, it used to mean a thousandth of   
   an   
   >>> inch, but people use it to mean a millimetre nowadays.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> It's not a mill. It's mil - single l. It means, and has always meant, a   
   >> thousandth of an inch. It's not an Americanism.   
   >   
   > In the UK "mill" means millilitre.   
   >   
   > If you want to refer to fractions of an inch, then   
   > it is /always/ "thou", i.e. thousandths of an inch.   
   >   
   > In the UK "mil/mill" /never/ means 0.001".   
   >   
      
   My bad. This is the first time I heard that the mil is not used   
   as the unit for .001" in the UK. (I'm *not* an American).   
      
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