"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it!" - Grandpa Simpson For over 40yrs, I worked only in thousandths of an inch. I having to work more with metric dimensions. My digital calipers, and DRO's are switchable to mm. No metric micrometers yet. But all my cutters & end mills are inch.
It's a hyphen. It means "and" in this context, so it functions as a plus sign. And then, as generalbigmac said, just do the division and the addition. Since everyone has a calculator in their pocket these days, it's easy.
@@Milesco is much kinder than I was. Those are the correct fundamentals edit: it may be easier to read as "12 - 15/16". Do you notice the space between the dash? Imagine that it looks like "12 15/16". That is an example of a mixed fraction. Study whole numbers, and study fractions, and then mixed fractions.
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"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it!" - Grandpa Simpson
For over 40yrs, I worked only in thousandths of an inch. I having to work more with metric dimensions. My digital calipers, and DRO's are switchable to mm. No metric micrometers yet. But all my cutters & end mills are inch.
I use that Grandpa Simpson quote all the time, it never gets old.
25.4
16th… 1.6mm thats how I do quick math
I live in the US, but I wish they would eliminate the Imperial system, metric for life!
Just let your dro sort it out.
So if they say 12-15/16” wtf is that in metric ? Is that symbol - a minus or plus ? And how thus a weird 31/32 works out. ?
328.6125mm... do the division bro
It's a hyphen. It means "and" in this context, so it functions as a plus sign.
And then, as generalbigmac said, just do the division and the addition. Since everyone has a calculator in their pocket these days, it's easy.
@@Milesco is much kinder than I was. Those are the correct fundamentals
edit: it may be easier to read as "12 - 15/16". Do you notice the space between the dash? Imagine that it looks like "12 15/16". That is an example of a mixed fraction. Study whole numbers, and study fractions, and then mixed fractions.
Just multiply Mm x .03937 ...EZ
x100/4
Or we can eliminate the metric system. 🙂