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

A third of a foot is 4 inches, yay whole numbers. A third of a meter is 33.33 cm.

Yeah, but a foot is about 30 centimeters. Easy to calculate half, a third, a fifth, a sixth of that. Yay. Whole numbers.

Not particularly hard to measure and calculate on the fly.