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The size of a what (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] justhach@lemmy.world 130 points 2 years ago

Americans will use anything but metric smdh.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 63 points 2 years ago
[-] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

I hope you are joking. There are no decimals in standard measuring systems. Decimals are a Communist plot. ;-)

[-] ioney@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Unless you're doing any kind of precision manufacturing, then it's decimal inch notation.

[-] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The steel that I cut has thickness measured in millimeters, the program wants it in fraction inches, and the torch spacing is in decimal inches. It's a catastrophe but Im getting pretty good at in/mm conversion

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