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The bore of this cylinder is 8.000 inches. How far is it across, eight inches or eight thousand inches? I spent time working with a ship's engineer and both are quite possible within the...

I'm quite accustomed to working to three significant figures or more and a decimal point is a decimal point in any field I've ever dealt with. The thousand seperator I do consider optional, though...

8.000 (eight point zero zero zero) ?? That's why you use either a comma or nothing if you mean eight thoudand.
You confused the heck out of me until I read through the whole thing.