On 24 May 2008 12:03:06 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>Stephen <mcavoysAT@aoldotcom> wrote:
>> On 24 May 2008 05:09:04 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
>> >  However, what are inches divided into? How would you express 7mm in
>> >inches?
>
>> Inches are divided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths and
>> thirtyseconds (1/32).
>
>  So how exactly do you express 7/10 inches? (Compare to 7mm being 7/10 cm.)
>How do you measure that with a ruler?

Sorry I forgot to mention in that last post that our rulers have
eighths and sixteenths on one side, tenths on the other and metric on
the reverse. So we would say seven tenths. 
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Regards
     Stephen

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