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Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by mulmen on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:21AM (#26190053)
One and a half seems natural. What about something like a quarter meter? I guess that just becomes some number of centimeters?

> How do you divide 7"3/8 by 5?

Same way I divide 4.7625 cm by 5. With a calculator.

Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video] by flemhans on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:00AM (#26192184)
> I guess that just becomes some number of centimeters?

25, yes. It's not too hard to do the math.

> Same way I divide 4.7625 cm by 5. With a calculator.

That's roughly 0.95 right by intuition, but (7"3/8) / 5 doesn't come easy to me.