Timeline for What is the advantage of non-metric units? [closed]
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| Jul 6, 2015 at 16:21 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jul 6, 2015 at 16:04 | comment | added | Wouter van Ooijen | IMO the use of mils in electrical engineering is widespread so the question is perfectly valid. Spehro's answer is fine, but just for the sake of it I vote to re-open. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 15:07 | comment | added | Nick Johnson | @LeonHeller It's still a unit you'll almost certainly use in an "electrial design". | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 12:39 | history | closed |
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| Jul 6, 2015 at 12:25 | comment | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | mils are used in electronic stuff. Mechanical guys use thou. (they're the same thing though). Lol | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 12:24 | answer | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 12:20 | comment | added | Leon Heller | That's a mechanical unit, not an electrical one. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 10:48 | comment | added | Nick Johnson | @LeonHeller mils? | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 10:24 | comment | added | Jon | @LeonHeller - assuming this question is about PCB design (perhaps lalala lalala can clarify) I think it is a reasonably valid one if someone lives in a metric country. I certainly found it odd when I was starting out. As pjc50 says though it is really nothing more than convention. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 10:19 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 6, 2015 at 10:18 | comment | added | pjc50 | It's entirely historical. 0.1" was standardised on early; when all your parts are measured in multiples of that, it makes sense to use it for the PCB design. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 10:00 | comment | added | Leon Heller | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it has nothing to do with electronic design. Also, non-metric units are not widely used. | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 9:59 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Jul 6, 2015 at 9:49 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 6, 2015 at 9:45 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | Why do we speak so many languages on this small planet? | |
| Jul 6, 2015 at 9:44 | history | asked | lalala lalala | CC BY-SA 3.0 |