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Re:Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes by Symbiote on Sunday July 05, 2020 @05:20AM (#23737529)
You find it more difficult to choose between 1mm, 2mm, 3mm, 3.5mm, 4mm, 4.5mm, 5mm, 6mm, 7mm, 8mm drill bits than 1/16 5/64 3/32 7/64 1/8 9/64 5/32 1/4 7/32 3/16 inches?

What's 3/16" in 64ths, while under your car?

(Imperial numbers copied from a website selling a set, metric from my memory of my 10-bit set. I doubt these sets are similar.)

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Re:Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes by beojan on Sunday July 05, 2020 @06:23AM (#23737726)
> What's 3/16" in 64ths, while under your car?

12. You just double it, twice.

I'm British, and generally partial to metric units, but power-of-two fractions actually seem quite nice to me.

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