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by s0rce 2247 days ago
Its frustrating. I'm a Canadian born and raised engineer/scientist working at a US-based medical device startup and I'm constantly converting between thou and microns and mm. Often stuff will be "in spec" for both, ex. 0.002" = 50um (assuming some tolerances for the part. Hopefully, we don't destroy any satellites by mixing the units up.