Rulers, was Re: YC blow distance

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: January 07, 2003 4:53 AM
Subject: Rulers, was Re: YC blow distance



> 
> Don't be so quick to toss off that 16R-graduated ruler. 1/100" 
> measurements offer two advantages over mm. First, its resolution is 
> finer, 1/100" being 40% of a mm. (Depending on your age, corrective 
> vision may be required.) Second, it immediately opens a door from 
> factional inches to decimal (as do dial calipers and micrometers). 
> Now you have all that benefits of metric (decimal) without having to 
> surrender our Precious National Heritage, probably the most important 
> thing the British Empire ever  gave us: the inch.


... which, of course, they no longer use.

Del