As the title says really, I can work with many different measurements (full inches, feet, yards, metres, mm etc ) but I’ve always struggle when it comes to imperial measurements of fractions of an inch. Why did people use this measurement because to me it seems a crazy way to measure something!
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> Why did (and why do) people use measurements in fractions of an inch?
Because it’s REALLY easy to divide something in half with simple tools, but it’s hard to divide things by 10.
This is not much an issue now, but it was very helpful in older measuring systems (in fact you see divisions like this going all the way back to the ancient Egyptians).
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