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"I guess the general US public can't really grasp small fractional sizes or thousands?" The fractional sizes would get weirded and weirder as they get smaller.
by DannyBee 12y ago
"I guess the general US public can't really grasp small fractional sizes or thousands?"
The fractional sizes would get weirded and weirder as they get smaller.
1mm is ~1/32 (5/128ths is a really close approximation, but let's assume nobody is that crazy).
Right now it's ~1/4 of an inch
Let's say they reduce the size 1mm.
Now which sounds better: 5.1mm, or 7/32 of an inch (or 13/64ths, which is more accurate)
- Tloewald 12y ago434g would seem like a reasonable way to express the mass of the thing too.
- chrisdroukas 12y agoAh, but then you're mucking with the advertising. 0.96 pounds seems so much lighter than 434 grams, right? A similar thing happened to A&W [0] with their "1/3 pound" burger selling fewer than a competitor's "1/4 pound" burger — effectively because "3" is less than "4" and fractions aren't for everyone. [0]http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/07/great-third-pound-burger-ripoff http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/07/great-third-po...
- nraynaud 12y agowhat I find crazy is machinists converting between fractions and decimal to work. i can't imagine how many mistakes must have been made because of that.
- DannyBee 12y agoMachinists don't use fractions (in my experience). They just use thousands of an inch.