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    Chapter 4

    Preferred Numbers
    SUMMARY
    The preferred numbering system has played a major role in the development of metric standards. This is a geometrical series
    of numbers adopted worldwide. Its first known application was in the 1870s by Charles Renard, a French army captain who
    reduced the different diameters of rope for military balloons from 425 to 17. The R5, R10 and R20 series refers to the Renard 5
    (first-choice sizes 60 % increments), Renard 10 (second-choice sizes 25 % increments) and Renard 20 (third-choice sizes 12
    % increments) series of preferred numbers standardized in ISO 3. Preferred sizes are shown in ANSI B4.2 and ISO 497.
    You might want to extend the preferred metric size range, which, is shown from 4 to 40, simply by multiplying or dividing the
    numbers shown in Table 4-1 by 10 or multiples of 10.
    The preferred metric sizes are used for nominal sizes in countries where the metric system has been in use for several years.
    Here is how the preferred metric nominal sizes were developed and how these chosen sizes reflect preferred metric standard
    sizes for threaded fasteners, steel plates, sheets, bars, etc already in use throughout the world.
    How do the preferred metric sizes relate to the inch sizes and the preferred numbers are shown in Table 4-1.

    TABLE 4-1 PREFERRED SIZES (ANSI B4.2)


    Preferred Size mm (ISO 497)

    Preferred Size Inch

    Preferred Numbers (ISO 3)

    R5

    R10

    R20

    mm

    Fractions

    Decimals

    R5

    R10

    R20

    4
    4.5
    5
    5.5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10
    11

    3.97
    4.37
    4.76
    5.56
    6.35
    7.14
    7.94
    8.73
    9.53
    11.11

    5/32
    11/64
    3/16
    7/32
    1/4
    9/32
    5/16
    11/32
    3/8
    7/16

    0.156
    0.172
    0.188
    0.219
    0.25
    0.281
    0.313
    0.344
    0.375
    0.438

    4
    4.5
    5
    5.6
    6.3
    7.1
    8
    9
    10
    11.2

    12

    12.7

    1/2

    0.5

    14

    14.29

    9/16

    0.563

    16
    18
    20
    22
    25
    28
    30
    35
    40

    15.88
    17.46
    19.05
    22.23
    25.4
    28.58
    30.16
    34.93
    39.69

    5/8
    11/16
    3/4
    7/8
    1
    1 1/8
    1 3/16
    1 3/8
    1 9/16

    0.625
    0.688
    0.75
    0.875

    5
    6

    6
    8

    10

    10
    12

    16

    16
    20

    25

    25
    30

    40

    40

    GO

    STOP

    5
    6.3

    8
    10

    10
    12.5

    12.5
    14

    16

    16
    20

    25
    1.125
    1.188
    1.375
    1.563

    6.3

    25
    31.5

    40

    40

    CAUTION

    16
    18
    20
    22.4
    25
    28
    31.5
    35.5
    40

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