(Corky Scott) wrote in message ...

I always read those numbers as first place to the right of the decimal
as tenths, second hundredths and third place thousandths.

That's correct.

So is .060" reading 6 hundredths, or 60 thousandths. Or are they the
same? It's always been a mystery to me.

Exactly. One split into ten parts = tenths. A tenth split into ten
parts = hundredths. A hundredth split into ten parts = thousandths.
Ten thousandths = one hundredth. Ten hundredths = one tenth. Ten
tenths = one.

But hey, what's a little factor of ten between friends?

Corrie