I’m a machinist and we use inches specifically decimal inches in my part of the US.
I spent 30 minutes today trying to find a 19/32" gage sphere. because…why? An engineer somewhere decided to use a very strange diameter sphere to measure a tapered cavity at a depth. Because I always wanted to know 19 parts of 32 of something as if that’s fucking rational.
The whole system of fractional measurement infuriates me daily- who the hell came up with such an odd system of measurement? And over 150 years or so after SI metric system came out, and Americans STILL use this idiocy?
The whole thing makes me want to bang my head into a wall but my brain is trained to see increments of 0.001" by eye or less. Despite working in metric at home. Ugggh
