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The size of a what (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] justhach@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Americans will use anything but metric smdh.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 year ago (9 children)

My feet are 0.83 feet long

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope you are joking. There are no decimals in standard measuring systems. Decimals are a Communist plot. ;-)

[–] ioney@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

83/100 feet

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you're doing any kind of precision manufacturing, then it's decimal inch notation.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The steel that I cut has thickness measured in millimeters, the program wants it in fraction inches, and the torch spacing is in decimal inches. It's a catastrophe but Im getting pretty good at in/mm conversion

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