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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

your track widths and PCB dimensions will be in millimetres

Not milli-inches? Is this a UK thing or have PCB design evolve since I last touched it?

Anyway, milli-inches is one of the funniest unities I've used.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

We call them thou.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, thou is industry standard. Never heard of mili inches

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, even though that unit is a thousandth of an inch, it's called mils rather than milli-inches.

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