• Sagifurius@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    It’s more it didn’t have rules. Decimal standard was used by surveyors and engineers, mechanical types. Fractional was more useful for carpenters and tradesmen, descending halves is more intuitive than descending tens, it just became custom. You can order a “big inch” ruler, ten inches in a foot, inches in tenths down too, or a caliper that displays in thousandths