Oh, absolutly! In a machine shop, you just might get laughed at for
clarifying between a tenth of an inch and a tenth of a thousandth.
The thousandth is ALWAYS assumed in a machine shop. A tenth of inch
is for those guys that don't know how to hold a micrometer in their
hands ;-)
So, yes, most people, within their trades, make certain assumptions
that is confusing to others.
Chris
> Yes, that's true. But some people are lazy and leave out the
important
> part of this unit (like tenth).
> A tenth here is usually a tenth of a millimeter, used by machinists.
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