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Yes, excellent chocolate. ;-)

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Was it good chocolate?

Sounds like a good deal to me! :-)

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I bet. But can it compete with the change from hard currency notes that are given in topless bars? ;-)

A 'mil' is a short way of saying 'milli-inch'. It's also how the thickness of plastic film is spec'd. To a machinist, a thou is a thousandth or an inch, AKA a mil. a "tenth" is 0.0001 = 1/10000.

$1000 is a "grand." ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Just don't use a soldering GUN! Use a 25-watt pencil, or maybe 40-watt iron, if you're soldering AWG 14 or fatter. Connectors can be convenient if you're planning on taking it apart a lot; otherwise, I'd go ahead and solder them.

Cheers! Rich

There's a nicely restored Victorian in my neighborhood, 3 small bedrooms, on the standard 24-foot-wide lot. It has a two-car garage courtesy of a hydraulic lift system that stacks the cars. Asking 1.7 megabucks.

John

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The classic pre-WWII ratio was about 5:1

John

That's right- same region, different domains. I use "mil" when I'm talking about PCBs and "thou" when I'm talking about metal.

We use mils for money too. As in "they just bought a fixer-upper in Rosedale for one-point-four mil".

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Not sure, the price of the medium cup of regular coffee I buy many mornings has gone up from 2.5uH to 3.0uH in recent times.

If you consider the uH (micro-house) as a unit of value, it has some interesting results. Most things are getting cheaper, including all the major currencies.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Well..... The idea of a milli *inch* seems so obscure to us metricated ppl who are

Yeah - ok I use inches too - but not *officially* - lol. All mech drgs here are marked in m and mm.

I have actually seen discussions where US mils got ppl confused who thought they meant mm.

This doesn't happen if you call it a thou. That's really my point.

Btw - I have no difficulty differentiating between a thousandth of an inch and a thousand pounds ! Hmmm - that's about 1873 USD currently ! I never imagined the pound would ever rise against the dollar to that degree. I can recall when it was a ratio of 3 : 1 too.

Graham

The other day it occurred to me - when my Granddad built a house, everybody built their own house - it cost mainly labor, maybe about a month's wages worth. Around the time my folks were buying a house, a house could be had for about a year's wages. When I bought a house, they were going for about three years' wages. Nowadays, they're about ten years' wages.

I wonder if that's merely exponential, or asymptotic, like taxes/ inflation?

Thanks, Rich

Depends on where you want to live (and how much money you make.)

John

-- Rob

Mine has dropped marginally over 10-15 years from 2uH to 1.8uH.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

A month's wages? ...must have been a small house or your GF had a quite nice job. My parent's house was more like a year's salary, and he did much of the work himself. The house I live in now is likely worth a bit more than two-years, with the land value half of the value.

Taxes (both direct and hidden) are a far higher portion of my salary than they were for my parents. My property tax alone is over 5% of my salary (and increasing at 6-10%/year).

So, you're saying wages have dropped from 0.3H to 0.1H from when you bought a house to now. If you could sell it now, you wouldn't have to work for the next decade or so. ;-)

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

One of the things that have caused the huge increase in the cost of big-city housing is the women's movement. Now there are lots if twinkies (two incomes, no kids) bidding for houses. Nowadays a guy may make 70K as an airline mechanic and his wife (or equivalent) makes 70K as a nurse, and they are bidding against everybody else. Food and cars and stuff are fairly cheap, interest rates are low, income tax is high, so they can put almost half of their income into mortgage payments. So they'll bid $750K for a house that would be worth a fourth of that in Warren, Ohio or somewhere like that. Part of it is speculation, of course, like the 1990's stock market.

John