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When Reading Decimal Values aloud.

Why do machinists read traditional decimal values such as 0.5 (five tenths)
as five hundred thousands of an inch?

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When Reading Decimal Values aloud.

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Reading Decimals
by: Tom J. in Chesapeake

I don't know about other people but for me I was always trying to keep everything the same. Like .001 is one thousandth of an inch, .010 is ten thousandths, .100 is a hundred thousandths. It was easier for me to communicate and less chance of confusing anyone using thousandths instead of tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.

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