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geomartin:
I remember the first time I saw the 10ths and 100ths scale back in the late 70s in my high school drafting class.  It has nothing to do with metric.  Once you get outside of carpentry and architectural use, it is not uncommon to have this type of scale.  Most Calipers and micrometers measure by 10s and 100s as well.

Green Giant:

--- Quote from: Le Chuck on March 26, 2012, 09:53:54 pm ---You guys haven't heard about the metric-imperial-fusion?  Inches are now measured in 10ths and 100ths.  They are all slightly longer and a foot is now half a meter and only 10 inches.  One inch is now 5cm.  A KM is still 1000m which is conversely 2000ft.  The mile is now a unit of time as is the parsec... though this was probably done to justify Han's Kessel run figures.  The new wieght conversion goes gram, ounce, kilogram, lb, stone, tonne all being factors of 10 to each other.  Finally time has been adjusted to a 10 month year of 10 hour days with 100 minutes of 100 seconds each.  You probably need a new watch also.  Man you guys are behind the power curve on this one.       

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Are you trying to tell me that 8 inches will now be more like 6.5 inches?

Every guy in America is gonna have a problem with that one, well some of us guys will.

Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: Ond on March 26, 2012, 10:48:14 pm ---So is that a Decimal Inch (because there is such a thing)?  Where does that fit in and is it base 10? Must be if its in tenths.  A quick search reveals the Scottish Inch and the Swedish Inch .  WTF?  :lol

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There's also Hedwig's Angry Inch.

Nephasth:

--- Quote from: Malenko on March 27, 2012, 08:46:56 am ---are you sure you weren't measuring with a scale and not a ruler?

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This was a 6" clear child's ruler... with snowflakes printed on it. Pretty sure it wasn't a scale, but you never know...


--- Quote from: geomartin on March 27, 2012, 11:05:32 am ---I remember the first time I saw the 10ths and 100ths scale back in the late 70s in my high school drafting class.  It has nothing to do with metric.  Once you get outside of carpentry and architectural use, it is not uncommon to have this type of scale.  Most Calipers and micrometers measure by 10s and 100s as well.

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Calipers, especially micrometers, are typically ruled by 1/1000" increments (best for RCHs), some even in 1/10000" increments for the gnat's ass measurements. I would have no use for a set of calipers that only measured in 1/100" increments, let alone 1/10".

Le Chuck:

--- Quote from: Green Giant on March 27, 2012, 11:20:47 am ---Are you trying to tell me that 8 inches will now be more like 6.5 inches?

Every guy in America is gonna have a problem with that one, well some of us guys will.

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Real men conduct all personal measurements in the age old standards of tuna cans and soda cans... which shall remain constant during this transition.  Less in girth than either or is not even on the scale.    

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