Nitpick: “caliber” has several different meanings, all of which (confusingly) relate to a gun’s barrel dimensions. The one you’re using is a measure of internal barrel diameter, essentially a shorthand for inches (i.e. .22 caliber); the decimal point often gets dropped in that context, though. It’s equally correct to speak of caliber in terms of some other unit, like millimeters. When you’re talking about large weapons, though, the word means the length of the weapon’s barrel as a multiple of its internal diameter; a tank gun might be 120 mm 55 caliber, making it 6.6 meters long.
The American customary system doesn’t as far as I know have a general-use length unit in the millimeter range. There are a couple of typographical) units) defined in terms of the customary system, but they haven’t really escaped into the wild.
Nitpick: “caliber” has several different meanings, all of which (confusingly) relate to a gun’s barrel dimensions. The one you’re using is a measure of internal barrel diameter, essentially a shorthand for inches (i.e. .22 caliber); the decimal point often gets dropped in that context, though. It’s equally correct to speak of caliber in terms of some other unit, like millimeters. When you’re talking about large weapons, though, the word means the length of the weapon’s barrel as a multiple of its internal diameter; a tank gun might be 120 mm 55 caliber, making it 6.6 meters long.
The American customary system doesn’t as far as I know have a general-use length unit in the millimeter range. There are a couple of typographical) units) defined in terms of the customary system, but they haven’t really escaped into the wild.
Please don’t use URL shorteners. I want to upvote this for informativeness but aagh...
I wouldn’t have, but the markup here interacts badly with URLs containing close parentheses. If you know of a workaround, I’d be happy to hear it.
EDIT: …or I could just look at the extended markup help. There, fixed.
Simply put a backslash before the closing parenthesis. I.E. to link to “http://example.com/foo(bar)″ type ”link\)”
“[link](http://example.com/foo(bar\\))″, rather.
Nope, the equivalent unit is x/2^n inches.
For example, metric wrenches might be 4mm or12mm, while “standard” (imperial) might be 5⁄32″ or 1⁄2″.