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[–] justhach@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Americans will use anything but metric smdh.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] qisope@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

you're not legally allowed to call them feet then

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can get around those rules by spelling it wrong.

Pheet.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Ok, my pheet are 0.83 pheet long

Much better

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Whatever king it was had really big feet though.

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope you are joking. There are no decimals in standard measuring systems. Decimals are a Communist plot. ;-)

[–] ioney@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you're doing any kind of precision manufacturing, then it's decimal inch notation.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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