Devine Lu LinvegaApr 20

We've had this long furling tape from Japan for the longest time, for years!! thinking it was in inches. Causing us lots of mistakes and fuck ups, the whole time we thought it was our own miscalculations, that we must have messed up in converting it to metric or something.

1) The unit on the tape is in tenth of a foot.
2) That's almost exactly 3cm, BUT NOT QUITE.
3) The ruler says FEET, but then breaks it down in 3cm segments each divided in tenth of a tenth of foot.

WHAT THE FUCK RULER

Show threadoriApr 20
Those are metric inches. Obviously.
Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftApr 20

@ori @neauoire

If you start talking in deca-feet and milli-inches Ima bout to get angry and start throwing things.

Show threadnickApr 20
@tezoatlipoca @ori @neauoire milli-inches is already a thing, called a "thou" and used in engineering and machining.
Show threadnickApr 21
@tezoatlipoca @ori @neauoire 1/1000th of an inch is also sometimes called a "mil" which is a smidge confusing if you're used to a "millimeter" being called a "mil".
1/10000th of an inch is sometimes called a "tenth".
Also there's an angular unit called a "milliradian" which is 1/1000th of a radian and is also called a "mil".
Show threadphooky
@nickzoic @tezoatlipoca @ori @neauoire you'll be happy to know that passive SMD package names are often specified in hundredths of an inch
Jun 16 at 11:18amWeb
Show threadThird spruce tree on the left1d ago

@phooky @nickzoic @ori @neauoire

"happy" - don't you have a clean room to... clean?

Show threadnick1d ago
@phooky @tezoatlipoca @ori @neauoire yeah, although anything less than 0805 might as well be cracked pepper for all I can tell.
Are the Germans still doing beer in centiliters?
Show threadAMS1d ago
@phooky @nickzoic @tezoatlipoca @ori @neauoire Also that 0201 (inch) is 0603 (metric) and 0402 (metric) is 01005 (inch). And for extra fun 1005 (metric) is 0402 (inch).
Show threadphooky1d ago
@AMS @nickzoic @tezoatlipoca @ori @neauoire and 0603 is a common package name in both metric and imperial. THAT HAS NOT LED TO ANY PROBLEMS IN MY LIFE, WHY DO YOU ASK