Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Slightly off-topic : History behind lettered drills

Hi Ian

Go into any local retail outlet and ask the dimensions of a product.
Nine times out of ten, it will be quoted in centimeters. Some of these
teachers need to be stung up by the short'n'curlies.

> difficult. The metric system, on the other hand, is very difficult to
> visualise and, infact, is also difficult to teach as children cannot easily
> work with the two most common measures, the metre and the millimetre so,
> over here at least, schools start teaching using the centimetre - a
> measurement that the kids never use again once they leave school.

> It was a sad day when we stopped having 12
> pennies to the shilling!

What's a shilling ? ;-}}

Regards, Paul.

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