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-----Converting to Decimals
How many decimal places for microinches. How many decimal places for millionth's(How to write 200 millionth's).
Steve Dutton- Muskegon, Michigan
2003
First of two simultaneous responses 2003
Platers have their own lingo for such measurements. We refer to plating thickness as "tenths" which are actually ten-thousandths of an inch. That is 0.0001 inch is called "one tenth" by platers. The term "tenth" actually refers to one-tenth of a mil with a mil being
1/1000".
Now to answer your specific question, a millionth of an inch is the same as 1 microinch. One hundred microinches is one tenth to a plater, thus, one millionth of an inch or a microinch is written
0.000001". With so many zeroes, you can see why saying one microinch is easier!
200 microinches = 2 tenths = 0.000200 inch
Milt Stevenson, Jr.
Plating shop technical manager - Syracuse, New York
Second of two simultaneous responses
Millionths of an inch and microinches are the same thing. The first digit after a decimal point is tenths, then hundredths, then thousandths, then ten thousandths, then hundredthousandths, then millionths. So 1 microinch would be 0.000001" and 200 microinches would be 0.000200" which is the same thing as 'two ten-thousandths of an inch' or 'point 2 mils'.
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