• ToastGhost [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Youre still allowed to divide up a meter into fractions if it makes your math easier, my point with inches and fractions was that there is no way to describe something smaller than an inch with a simple integer number, there are no nano-inches, and if there were, they would probably be a new entirely arbitrary fraction of an inch.

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      4 years ago

      Youre still allowed to divide up a meter into fractions if it makes your math easier, my point with inches and fractions was

      I mean technically true, but I get the sense metric users aren't trained to use fractions. Do European carpenters use fractions, or fuck around with 7 significant figures?

    • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      i mean north american machinists use thousands of an inch or (0.001") which is in the same realm as a micrometer