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[–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

If someone were adding those figures they would switch to decimal. I built furniture for 2 years, 64ths are almost never used over thousands of an inch. If you need to be finer than 32nds you use thou. And that pretty much only for wood. Machine shop I worked in used thou exclusively.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    thousands of an inch

    Which is called a “mil”, a name that has never caused confusion

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Is it really? That’s really interesting, and would cause a lot of confusion in metric-English countries where ‘mil’ is pejoratively used in speech to either mean ‘millimetre’ or ‘millilitre’ depending on context.

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