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The size of a what (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by sjmarf to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Americans will use anything but metric smdh.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My feet are 0.83 feet long

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

you're not legally allowed to call them feet then

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can get around those rules by spelling it wrong.

Pheet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Ok, my pheet are 0.83 pheet long

Much better

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Feetish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Whatever king it was had really big feet though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I hope you are joking. There are no decimals in standard measuring systems. Decimals are a Communist plot. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

83/100 feet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unless you're doing any kind of precision manufacturing, then it's decimal inch notation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The steel that I cut has thickness measured in millimeters, the program wants it in fraction inches, and the torch spacing is in decimal inches. It's a catastrophe but Im getting pretty good at in/mm conversion