While in theory it is like that, I as a non english speaker have come across people trying to add up inch fractions more time than I remember.
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JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 12 hours agoIf someone were adding those figures they would switch to decimal. I built furniture for 2 years, 64ths are almost never used over thousands of an inch. If you need to be finer than 32nds you use thou. And that pretty much only for wood. Machine shop I worked in used thou exclusively.
lauha@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
starik@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Which is called a “mil”, a name that has never caused confusion