joedog
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Post by joedog on Feb 25, 2010 21:24:29 GMT -5
So what would the caliber be if the barrel is 24 inches at the breach??
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 25, 2010 22:30:49 GMT -5
I'd lay odds your typical carpenter when faced with mixed fractions would squint and guess. You can tell the better carpenters because it fits anyway. 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64 Those are the fraction denominations that a carpenter will deal with. Working with those are simple and any carpenter who has received any formal training will have no problem working with them. In fact, he or she will find those fractions much easier to work with than the decimal representation of those fractions. See, carpenters go halves on things and find the center of things. Using fractions for that is much easier than decimals. So even if we go metric you will still see carpenters using fractions, just fractions of centimeters rather than fractions of inches. |
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Bob
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Post by Bob on Feb 25, 2010 22:48:06 GMT -5
Palm-OS use "calcul-8" free app (OK I still use a palm phone, but being a palm os developer, I'm partial)
iPhone - fork over a buck or more.. (0.99 - 4.99) searching for "metric convert" on my iPod touch..
calcu-8 is a killer app. I started using it as a hex/decimal/binary converter, it eventually replaced my HP 48g (cant do everything my HP can do but it does everything I need)
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Post by mandrake on Feb 25, 2010 23:55:39 GMT -5
1mm =.3937". I just call it 40 thou. Handy for most all quick conversions, of course the calculator and calipers are always handy for tighter work.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2010 6:54:40 GMT -5
> So what would the caliber be if the barrel is 24 inches at the breach??
It would be too big for concealed carry.
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