Agreed and to clarify: > everything in inches, foot pounds, and what not doesn't translate very well internationally when you start outsourcing It translates

Agreed and to clarify: > everything in inches, foot pounds, and what not doesn't translate very well internationally when you start outsourcing It translates pretty well for the last 90 years: In 1930, the British Standards Institution adopted an inch of exactly 25.4 mm. The American Standards Association followed suit in 1933. By 1935, industry in 16 countries had adopted the "industrial inch" as it came to be known, effectively endorsing Johansson's pragmatic choice of conversion ratio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch See also the paragraph above referencing the precision tools enabled by Swede Carl Johansson's "Jo Blocks." For a nice video/contextual storytelling, see Machine Learning channel's Origins of Precision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58