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Re: Decimal notation

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2023-02-21 23:09

Hunter_100 wrote:

> Watch out, the those tip openings are read as hundredths of mm,
> not simply mm. i.e. a reported value of 100.5 is actually
> 1.005 mm
Yes, I know. Too hurried in typing. A lot of the mouthpiece ads I've seen from American makers do use a decimal - 1.025 mm would be the same as Vandoren's 102,5, although I rarely if ever have seen an American ad specify a tip opening to 3 decimal places (thousandths) - only hundredths, e.g. 1.02. That's probably a topic for another thread - where do all those ,5 or .5 measurements (102,5) come from?

>
> Barrels have a similar, but different convention to be marked
> in tenths of mm. A marked 660 barrel measures 66.0mm length.
> Why can't they just stick to the standards of the metric
> system?

It seems to me I hadn't seen this until I started trying Buffet Moennig and Chadash barrels. All the other barrels in my drawer are marked in 2-digit mm sizes (if they're marked at all - older ones need you to have a Vernier caliper handy).

Karl

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