True, but 1/2^n fractions are highly encouraged only with imperial in my experience, and my problem comes in that my different measuring instruments give me dif

True, but 1/2^n fractions are highly encouraged only with imperial in my experience, and my problem comes in that my different measuring instruments give me different levels of precision, ranging from 1/8" if I'm using a big measuring stick, to 1/16" on my tape measure, to 1/32" on my embedded measure, to 1/128" on my calipers. And then there are times when you are given measurements in tenths of an inch which feels natural for most (13.2" long), and that gets ugly... Probably if I was a better woodworker I would have a solution for this without switching to metric.