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You really want to fry brains at the range, I’ll loan you one of my work tape measures. Civil Engineer working in 0.1 and 0.01 foot increments.. A 0.125 foot group sounds much better than 1-1/2” group!
Just decide on the Increment you want to use and watch everyone melt down.
We used to do demolition exercises and somehow an engineering tape got in the demo box with all the others. Students were punished and instructors were losing their minds for multiple iterations when the fuze burn time was way off.
Someone eventually figured it out, but it was quite a puzzle for a while.
Yea those and that pesky slide rule sucked. Oh wait, those did take us to the moon in 1969. Now most can't travel anywhere w/o their GPS. Progress?
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