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    What does a tolerance really mean?

    Thanks guys. I agree with "TheTick" - we should send those who thought that option B was correct to the competition. It was one of those strange, floor-dropping-out-from-below you moments, when we actually discovered that we disasgreed on such a fundamentally simple issue Anyway, problem...
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    What does a tolerance really mean?

    Hi, We have debate going on in our company right now as to the true defintion of a simple tolerance. Here's the very simple question: Say you had a rod with a diameter dimension and tolerance of 1.000" +/- 0.005", what is the exact upper bound that that part can be and still satisfy this...

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