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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I carry my “bilingual” tape in my away mission bag, because that way I can get away with having one tape measure. My metric tape lives on my desk and I’ve got inch tapes dripping out of the walls. I wake up in the morning and cough up a few.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I accidentally bought an engineers ruler that’s in 10ths of a foot that’s a real pain in the ass. Or that side of the square that’s in 12ths. But I’d really like a fractional metric ruler. 7/16ths cm.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My sawyer has a tape that measures in tenths of a foot as well. Kind of reminds me of how aircraft measure time aloft; both tach time and hobbs time is measured in tenths of an hour.

      Something that’s gonna tilt your head: 1 1/2" is 1/8th of a foot. And 3/4" is 1/16th of a foot. Common inch woodworking sizes like that aren’t weird fractions of an inch, they’re some power of two fraction of a foot.

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      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        1 1/2" is 1/8th of a foot

        Nice! Never thought of that!

        I like how shipwrights used to notate dimensions, feet-inches-eighths+/- so 28 3/4" would be 2-4-6. 28 13/16ths" would be 2-4-6+

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