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The size of a what (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Americans will use anything but metric smdh.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (9 children)

My feet are 0.83 feet long

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

83/100 feet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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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