Point or Dot??

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My first year instructor would verbalize code
sections like 240.6 as 240 dot 6.
Now I'm running into instructors that would say 240 point 6 for the same article. I'm not trying to make a big deal out of it I'm just wondering which would be the more common.

Thanks for all the help.
 
K2X said:
My first year instructor would verbalize code
sections like 240.6 as 240 dot 6.
Now I'm running into instructors that would say 240 point 6 for the same article. I'm not trying to make a big deal out of it I'm just wondering which would be the more common.

Thanks for all the help.
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Just pay attention to artical dont worry about the point or dot.
 
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I use both terms, the pre 02 dash was easier.

The NEC is easy compared to others such as NFPA 99, for example, you could have something like 4.3.2.2.2.1 or 3.5.4.3.3.1 :)


Roger
 
I usually insert a short pause, rather than pronouce the "." character. Example: 310 (pause) 16. :grin:
 
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you should record yourself saying both of the words into a mpeg file using MATLAB and then calculate which one takes more energy to say.

that is how i would determine which one to use.

:)
 
You could always decide to be annoying and use ICAO (aviation) radio pronunciation:
the '.' is read as 'decimal'
each digit is read out separately
5 is read out as fife
9 is read out as niner

Thus
four fife zero decimal niner Transformer Ventilation

:)

-Jon
 
I just go with "dot". When everyone lost their shirt in the stock market decline of the early 2000's [.com disaster] nobody said it was due the period com, point com or something else. It was called the dot com crash.
 
Dot in 'words', point in 'numbers', and period in 'spoken punctuation'.

Article 240 'dot' 4
PI is approximated to 3 point 14.
 
jim dungar said:
Dot in 'words', point in 'numbers', and period in 'spoken punctuation'.

Article 240 'dot' 4
PI is approximated to 3 point 14.
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In legalese, 240.4(A), for example, is "Article 240, Section 4". Divisions therein can take on various terminology, such as general statement, subsection, paragraph, condition, requirement, stipulation, etc.... so the "(A)" might be "subsection A".
 
stevenje said:
I think that the code would be more enjoyable to all if the late Victor Borge could read it with his Phonetic Pronunciation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw I hope this link works.
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He also did stories where anything that sounded like a number was raised to the next number. For example:

"I went three the store two day last week that I had never been to befive."
 
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