Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 week agoyou end up with decimals of an inch
tbf engineers were using decimal inches (as thou or mil) basically forever.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.