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At least in the UK my experience is we don't really use decimals with Imperial units - it seems much more natural to use fractions. For example, "10 feet 8 and
by tomatocracy 3y ago
At least in the UK my experience is we don't really use decimals with Imperial units - it seems much more natural to use fractions.
For example, "10 feet 8 and a half inches" not "10.7 feet" (yes I know the rounding is slightly different). For a smaller distance you might say "three sixteenths of an inch" (since thats what the imperial side of a tape measure is typically divided into) though there are some exceptions eg "0.1 inch spacing".
Pints and fl oz the same (you see this quite often in recipes for example) - "1 pint 3 fl oz" or even "23 fl oz" not "1.15 pints". For gallons I think most Brits would likely use a whole number of pints rather than subdividing (ie "21 pints" not "2 gallons, 5 pints").
But I'll give you that we don't really use furlongs outside of horse racing :)