• Victor@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Fractions are also way harder to understand if you need to [g]et precise

    Not gonna lie, if you are working with carpentry or sewing or similar construction or creative work, you probably shouldn’t have any issues with fractions…

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      3 hours ago

      Just try adding 1/3 and 5/8. In my field fractions like that are nowhere near precise enough anyways, so you’d need to work with thousands of inches, which just makes you wish there was a smaller unit like millimeters

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        2 hours ago

        Just try adding 1/3 and 5/8.

        Cherry-picking fractions with prime numbers. 👍 Obviously no harder than using a readily available calculator just like any engineer would with the metric system. That’s fine too. You’d end up with a decimal answer, so then the benefit is lost, just as with fractions of cm.

        In my field

        Yup, say no more. I’m not saying inches are universally better. Only in certain situations.

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          1 hour ago

          I don’t see how cherry picking is an issue when that issue literally can’t happen when you’re working with fractions, I also don’t think those sizes are particularly uncommon?