At 11:48 03/13/99 -0500, Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
>Not trying to create any problem here, please, but comparing,
>a meter/1000 is just "mm", how in standard form you represent
>a inch/10? 3/32 + 3/512 + 3/8192 + 3/65536 + 3/1048576 + ... ?

well, in electronics we got used to call "inch/10" "100mil" :)  =somebody=
on this side of the ocean must have had a need to facilitate calculations
and start counting in decimals rather than in binary fractions...

ge