• wjrii@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, I reckon somebody told the drafter Americans use inches and fractions and they did not clarify any more than that.

    Our system is antiquated and kind of unwieldy, but it is a system. Power of two denominators for most things, which comes from a practice of just dividing shit in half, and decimal inches for surveyors and machinists.