On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:23 AM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyway, the point of my initial email seems to have rather been
> missed: It appears that the calipers are internaly imperial rather
> than metric, because the measurement was breaking down on exact tenths
> of  inches readings. A new battery has restored the caliper to
> function, but what I was remarking on was that the exact failure mode
> told me something interesting.

You occasionally see that.  I don't remember the context, but I
noticed some measuring device that was obviously based on imperial
units rather than the more common metric.  Optical scales have been
metric for some time, at least for the most part. But there isn't any
reason that should be true, they print them.

Now, if only someone would start importing all-metric scales (rulers)
into the U.S. instead of the hateful metric/imperial mixed unit scales
that would be great.

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