Simply stated, it takes less characters to say the same thing.  Which means we can fit bigger numbers on the screen.  At my age, the bigger the numbers are, the better!

Miltoinches Chart

On occasion, we are asked, “What are these numbers on the screen?”  All our alignment tools (and most others) can be configured in Imperial or Metric.  Most US users use Imperial (inches, feet, and so on).

Milstomm

Definition – [mil] noun. 1. a unit of length equal to 0.001 of an inch.  It is a term normally used as a wire size, or in electronic measurements of length, such as calibrating probes.

20 MilstoInches

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0.1 miltoinches

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1 milto inch

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Miltoinches fraction

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If it was displayed in thousandths, it would read -0.0134”.  It takes 5 characters to display it in mils.  It would take 8 characters to display it in thousandths.  Since there are eight alignment results on the screen:

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