Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.
JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoAs a metric-raised guy I find extremely difficult following the tutorials of woodworkers that start putting 2feet 3 inches and 9/16 in the measurements that converts to 700,0875mm wich i guess is an approximation of 70cms
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Things like woodworking are exactly where the imperial system came from. Because daily usable lengths like a foot are using base 12 not base 10, it can be divided much more evenly even before needing fractions.