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A thou was in very common use in the uk in engineering before the switch to metric.
by C1sc0cat 6y ago
A thou was in very common use in the uk in engineering before the switch to metric.
- OJFord 6y agoOh I don't doubt it, I'm not saying it's some weird or wonderful exclusively American thing, I'm just too young to be aware of it from anywhere else, and suggesting that it or similar (tenths, hundredths) would be an improvement on 2^x denominated fractions even in applications that don't need such accuracy. Put another way, I think if everyone (not just precision applications) used decimalised inches, it would just be a different scale and ~nobody would care to say 'omg why don't you use metric'.
- bluGill 6y agoThe primary advantage of metric is that everyone else uses it. The decimal is useful, but fractions have their place as well, so there isn't a clear win.