Neil Hoskins wrote:
"Bob Harrington" wrote in message
...


I long for a simpler day when everything could be compared to a
football field or a VW Bug...

Ah yes. Or if you work in microelectronics, you can forget about
thou, mil, microns, or nanometers, because as far as the popular
press is concerned, everything is measured in units of 'the
thickness of a human hair'.


Or the engineering adaptation of the hair measurement, the 'BCH'.



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Cheers

Dave Kearton