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**Mal H** · March 7, 2000, 09:08 PM

You're right, it is meaningless. But being the anal retentive kind of guys we are (

), you would take the ratio of the error amount to the nominal OAL or ± (.004 / 1.260) = ±.003 or ±.3%.

March 7, 2000, 09:08 PM	#13
Mal H Staff Join Date: March 20, 1999 Location: Somewhere in the woods of Northern Virginia Posts: 16,954	You're right, it is meaningless. But being the anal retentive kind of guys we are ( ), you would take the ratio of the error amount to the nominal OAL or ± (.004 / 1.260) = ±.003 or ±.3%.