I think that mil is short for milli inch, which is really mixing systems. I think that power folks do even worse. Wires larger than 4/0 are given in circular mils, or cm. When I started with a power company 42 years ago, one thousand circular mils was MCM, where the M was from Roman Numerals for thousand. That was confusing, as it could also refer to Mega, so the M was changed to K for Kilo, so we had Kcmils.
73, Rick K7MW (not megawatts) On Jan 2, 2012, at 9:20 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
