• Saik0A
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    7 months ago

    you don’t get it. […] decimal doesn’t mean[…]

    No, you’re not getting it. 1/16 isn’t a function of a decimal system. It’s base 2. Primarily because you don’t really deal with 1/10th of something, but half of a half sort of stuff.

    1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16…

    2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4

    And base-2 functions make sense in wood working in general because of it’s imprecise nature. It’s more useful to compare things in halves. A 2x2 piece of wood is not literally 2inches x 2inches. Even in Europe you guys follow weird numbers for finished wood dimensions. It doesn’t make sense to have such precision when nothing about it is precise.