Comment on everything actually important is already metric
pls explain 🙂
.308 is caliber in inches thus not metric.
why do they use decimal for imperial units?
Because even people who worked in imperial recognized that dealing with stupid fractions is stupid.
I have a 77/250 rifle at home because I’m a real American.
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Because they couldn’t rationalize using fractions.
It means the round fired by the gun is .308 inches in diameter, or 7.62mm. Gun caliber is measured in inches for Imperial.
Machining is often done in thousandths of an inch.
so why don’t they write 1/1000 in then?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
.308 is caliber in inches thus not metric.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
why do they use decimal for imperial units?
Liz@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Because even people who worked in imperial recognized that dealing with stupid fractions is stupid.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have a 77/250 rifle at home because I’m a real American.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
🫡🇺🇲
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Because they couldn’t rationalize using fractions.
ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
It means the round fired by the gun is .308 inches in diameter, or 7.62mm. Gun caliber is measured in inches for Imperial.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Machining is often done in thousandths of an inch.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
so why don’t they write 1/1000 in then?