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      7 months ago

      But the imperial system is so convenient, you just use fractions instead of decimals…

      /s, because well, this is the internet.

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      7 months ago

      The measurements in parentheses are millimeters (or close enough), so it looks like a shitty conversion from a non-US manufacturer that doesn’t use imperial.

      36" is 914.4mm, so that’s what I’m basing this off of.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah, I reckon somebody told the drafter Americans use inches and fractions and they did not clarify any more than that.

        Our system is antiquated and kind of unwieldy, but it is a system. Power of two denominators for most things, which comes from a practice of just dividing shit in half, and decimal inches for surveyors and machinists.