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> You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall? Normally, yes: the couc
by Joker_vD 2y ago
> You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall?
Normally, yes: the couches generally have somewhat squishy... stuffing? filling?.. which hang off the wooden frame, so you generally can squeeze a couch from the sides a bit to fit it into slightly narrower space.
> say 1/10th of a foot.
This is unholy. Either say "an inch" for this hypothetical scenario, or use some decimal-based measurement system.
- wegfawefgawefg 2y agoa foot divides well into 1/2,1/3,1/4,1/6, 1/12 too. and he picked 1/10.
- Zecc 2y agoI'd rather see an interval written as (6.9, 7.1) than (6.916(6), 7.083(3))
- Joker_vD 2y agoYou just take inch as the basic unit and then the interval is (83, 85). By the way, SI has so many multiplying/dividing prefixes so that you could pick the units that would make most of the numbers in your field integers.
- masfuerte 2y agoIt is hideous but it has precedent. American railway engineering is done with metric feet. That is, feet with decimals. Miles, yards and inches don't get a look in.