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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It’s crazy to divide things by 2? Base 2 is pretty easy to deal with. We divide things in half way more than we divide things by 3/10s. A half inch is half of an inch, 1/16th of an inch is half of 1/8th. It’s all just dividing by 2.

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