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You should not be expected to understand clipper settings. But the stylist IS expected to understand them, and to pick the proper setting based on how long you want the hair to be.
The next time you're asked that, it's perfectly proper to say "take a quarter-inch off the top, and a half-inch off the sides" or "I want the top to be an inch long and spiked, and the sides to be shorter than that and lay naturally" or whatever else you want to say. Let the people earning the money figure out what setting that is!