My apologies, I had interpreted your query about the lower scale on the vernier having no numbers, so I supposed that you didn¡¯t know about using the scale notch that is closest a notch on the principle scale as a datum and counting back from there to the measurement point, tenths for the millimetre scale and eighths of eighths for the inches scale. ?(Just in case someone doesn¡¯t get it, the Vernier scale is 9/10ths the width of the millimetre divisions, or 7/8ths of the 1/8¡± divisions, allowing you to measure by eye to the next significant figure below the marked scale.)
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On 26 Jul 2022, at 23:50, sawbona@... wrote:
?Hello:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 05:32 AM, Mehmood wrote:
... search the internet for ¡°how to read a Vernier scale¡±, it¡¯s easy to do but harder to describe ...
Indeed.
I've had no problems reading the scale.
I was just curious about it not having numbers, probably because it is only good to 0.1mm.
The doubts I had was about reading the table on the back part of the main
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