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[โ€“] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you're doing any kind of precision manufacturing, then it's decimal inch notation.

[โ€“] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The steel that I cut has thickness measured in millimeters, the program wants it in fraction inches, and the torch spacing is in decimal inches. It's a catastrophe but Im getting pretty good at in/mm conversion