Why did (and why do) people use measurements in fractions of an inch?

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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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Because sometimes you need to measure the length of something that isn’t exactly a multiple of some number of inches.

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