At 12:09 PM 10/23/00 -0500, Huffman, Tony wrote:
>I am looking for the true mm to inch conversion. Webster defines a mm as
>being .0394 inches but the conversions I see on drawings do not agree with
>this. Where can I find the definitive conversion formula? Any ideas?

An inch is *defined* as 2.54 cm, which is 25.4 mm. From this, it can easily
be calculated that a millimeter is almost exactly 0.03937 inch. I also
found this value in my own dictionary.


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