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Re: Or...
By:Jonathan Hirsch
Date: 10/10/2000, 6:25 pm
In Response To: Or... (Dale Frolander)

: You can buy a scale from a tool supply store that is marked in 100ths of an
: inch. Then no conversion to the clumsy fraction system is needed.

: I still don't understand why much of this country uses fractions of an inch
: when they could use decimals. I'm not saying we need to convert to metric,
: we could just easily convert to decimals like the stock market is finally
: doing.

: If you have a computer program and input the curves into it, you will want
: decimals anyway.

Why NOT convert to metric?.

Messages In This Thread

help w/ offsets
T-bone -- 10/10/2000, 10:55 am
Re: help w/ offsets
Chris Menard -- 10/10/2000, 1:14 pm
Re: help w/ offsets
Ronnie -- 10/10/2000, 12:14 pm
Or...
Dale Frolander -- 10/10/2000, 1:05 pm
Re: Or...
Robert Gardner -- 10/10/2000, 10:42 pm
Re: Or...
Jonathan Hirsch -- 10/10/2000, 6:25 pm
Re: Or...
Dale Frolander -- 10/11/2000, 2:31 am
Re: Or...
Tony -- 10/12/2000, 4:31 pm
Re: Darn you mechanical types :)
Spidey -- 10/11/2000, 10:40 pm
Re: Darn you mechanical types :)
Shawn Baker -- 10/13/2000, 1:48 pm
New/Old Math revisited . . .
Spidey -- 10/13/2000, 5:54 pm
11959.9 I'll mail you my "convert" program spidey *NM*
Dale Frolander -- 10/12/2000, 1:45 am
Re: Or...
Jonathan Hirsch -- 10/11/2000, 2:45 am
Great
Dale Frolander -- 10/11/2000, 9:22 pm