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mm/dd/yy makes sense to those who use it, given our cultural adjustment. My father's argument for imperial is how easy it is to divide measurements. In woodwor
by lhnn 14y ago
mm/dd/yy makes sense to those who use it, given our cultural adjustment.
My father's argument for imperial is how easy it is to divide measurements. In woodworking, especially. 10 is divisible by 2 and 5. Powers of two are more flexible for division.
- mserdarsanli 14y agoDoes your father change units each time he needs to divide something?
- lhnn 14y agoOnly between feet and inches, but usually, he's working solely in inches (and fractions of an inch) for his projects.
- mserdarsanli 14y agoI didn't get how using inches is easier here. Can't you also do all these calculations, with the same ease, using centimeters?
- lostlogin 14y agoEase of use with imperial? I say no way. Trying to add 1/16 and 1/5 is somewhat harder than mm addition.
- lhnn 14y agoThat's why you don't cut to 1/5... I suppose it's all numbers in the end.... Mankind has found a way in the rest of the world to make metric work!
- Nitramp 14y agoThat's why plywood in Europe is usually sold in sheets of 240 cms, i.e. 2.4 m, which seems easier to calculate with, in particular when adding lengths.
- jacquesm 14y agoPut a tape measure along a sheet of plywood and prepare to be surprised. At least then you'll know why you always had trouble fitting them :)