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[Alex G <mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 10/10/2010 06:46 PM, dave m wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Alex G <mr.nuke.me
> I hope that by "going metric" you guys mean "having the ability to
> easily switch between metric and Imperial."  Imperial *is* so last
> millennium,  but unfortunately it's still widely used by PCB fabricators
> in North America (at least in my corner) and in many data sheets.
> 
We already have the ability to easily switch between metric and and
imperial. What I meant was to switch the base unit system to metric.
Right now, when you enter a metric value, that value is converted to
imperial and stored as such. Going metric would mean that metric values
are kept as is, but imperial values are converted to metric before being
stored. Considering the _exact_ correspondence of 25.4 between
millimeters and inches, this can be done with no loss of precision.
Currently this loss of exactness happens (3.2mm becomes 3.19999something).

I think that's what Vesa meant as well.

Alex
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