I have a 77/250 rifle at home because I’m a real American.
Comment on everything actually important is already metric
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 5 months agowhy do they use decimal for imperial units?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Because they couldn’t rationalize using fractions.
ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 5 months 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 5 months ago
Machining is often done in thousandths of an inch.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 5 months ago
so why don’t they write 1/1000 in then?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Because, unlike internet pendants, machinists have shit to do.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Liz@midwest.social 5 months ago
Because even people who worked in imperial recognized that dealing with stupid fractions is stupid.