I think this is due to the French influence on the metric system: in French, the word "mille" means "1000".
73, Matt VK2ACL. On 03/01/2012, at 4:20 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > Unfortunately, one has to be cautious of common "technical slang" in an > international community. Yes, common in US machinist's talk is for a > 'mil' to equal 0.001 inch. I am not certain of the origin and even > though I looked it up at Wikipedia, I still don't have any answer to why > 'thou' is equal to 'mil' (even though I use and understand that unit > myself). > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > On 1/3/2012 12:05 AM, Matt Maguire wrote: >> Here a "mil" is ovbiously not referring to a millimetre, otherwise the LEDs >> are sticking up 5cm! So, I did a google search, and discovered that in the >> Imperial measurement system, it can also refer to one thousandth of an inch >> (0.0254mm). >> >> That means 50 mils = 1.27mm, which makes much more sense. You learn >> something every day :-) >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
