A Minimalist Way to Identify SAE Sockets

[mklotz]

Marv,

Thanks for catching the typo. It is fixed now.

I find your approach interesting. It does a great job of illustrating how individualist these schemes are. I bet there are plenty of readers that hate both of these schemes equally ;-))

I enjoy exercises like this as a means of advertising just how complicated the inferial nomenclature is compared to the intelligent system employed in metric.

Before someone jumps on me here...

Nomenclature systems are NOT part of a measurement system. The inferial measurement system could have rational nomenclatures if they had given it some thought. Rather, they chose to pull stuff out of ***** **** the air and we end up with a mix of letters, meaningless numbers, and rational fractions. I marvel that music wire is not labeled by the frequency it emits when plucked. Bible chapter:verse numbers represent another missed opportunity for maximizing information-free naming.