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Americans will use anything but metric smdh.
My feet are 0.83 feet long
you're not legally allowed to call them feet then
You can get around those rules by spelling it wrong.
Pheet.
Ok, my pheet are 0.83 pheet long
Much better
Feetish
Whatever king it was had really big feet though.
I hope you are joking. There are no decimals in standard measuring systems. Decimals are a Communist plot. ;-)
83/100 feet
Unless you're doing any kind of precision manufacturing, then it's decimal inch notation.
The steel that I cut has thickness measured in millimeters, the program wants it in fraction inches, and the torch spacing is in decimal inches. It's a catastrophe but Im getting pretty good at in/mm conversion