Even more ridiculous is that they could have just made everything one fraction. Like 1/10 then 2/10 then 3/10. This crap is over complicated by it’s own rules.
What if you need to represent something between 1/10th and 2/10ths without misrepresenting your precision?
Fractional measurements are way better for indicating precision than decimal. With decimal precision can only be increased or decreased by a power of 10, whereas fractional can be any level of precision - just represent the precision in the denominator.
Maths may be important, but figuring out what’s bigger, 7/16 vs 3/8, is a stupid fucking system when metric exists.
Centimeters/millimeters: “6 is bigger than 5 is bigger than 4”
Inches: “I don’t fuckin know what’s bigger, 5/16 or 3/8? How about 7/32? Fuck you, I’m just making it all up.”
Even more ridiculous is that they could have just made everything one fraction. Like 1/10 then 2/10 then 3/10. This crap is over complicated by it’s own rules.
What if you need to represent something between 1/10th and 2/10ths without misrepresenting your precision?
Fractional measurements are way better for indicating precision than decimal. With decimal precision can only be increased or decreased by a power of 10, whereas fractional can be any level of precision - just represent the precision in the denominator.
Congrats were still useing fractions for a wrench. That still goes 10x.
I give your comment 13/4 up votes
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What’s that in hogs hair lengths?
3/8 is 6/16. 7/16 is bigger. That’s like 3rd grade math.
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how would not know what bigger