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Re: gEDA-user: footprint measurement units naming
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- From: "Samuel A. Falvo II" <sam.falvo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:58:44 -0700
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On 8/20/05, phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "centimil" and "centithou" both mix imperial and metric units and are thus
> quite illogical. Any other ideas on what I should be calling these things?
>
> Phil Taylor
The very concept of a "mil" is itself a mixture of metric and imperial
units -- 1 mil = 0.001 inches = 1 milli-inch.
Since the concept of a mil "metricizes" the imperial unit of an inch,
there is no disgrace in using metric prefixes in front of it. I
rather like the idea of defining a foot as 12 kilomils. ;D
I just wish the industry at large would just drop imperial units
all-together, and adopt SI units once and for all. But, that won't
happen until long after I die. :)
--
Samuel A. Falvo II