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>"thicknesses less than 0.001 inches (0.0254 millimeters)"
>Since the measurement refers to a fraction/decimal less than one, do I
>write "inch" (for one ten-thousandths of an inch) or "inches"??
In Webster's, I couldn't find the answer for "inch" for found one for "foot"
so I figure the same would apply. In the Weights and Measures table, they
give as an example: 144 square inches, 0.0069 square *foot*, etc. so I guess
anything falling under a single unit is singular.
And if you look under the metric equivalents, the same applies, so it would
be 0.0254 millimeter.
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Josee Sevigny Technical Writer
joseey -at- m3isystems -dot- qc -dot- ca
M3i Systems Inc., Longueuil, QC
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