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A standard Micrometer using the Metric system has a limitation of measuring to within 0.01 (one hundredth of a millimeter)

But micrometers provided with a vernier scale on the sleeve in addition to the regular graduations, permit measurements to within 0.001 millimetre to be made on metric micrometers, or 0.0001 inches on inch-system micrometers.

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