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Default Tape measure in Tenths of an inch

"DanG" wrote in news:aRJ_g.526$uF.267@dukeread12:

It might be more simple to force them
to work metric. It is a change that it is long overdue.


Yes, indeed (grew up in Holland, but here in the US since '69). I always
have to mentally translate 1/8" into ~3 mm. That visualizes much easier.

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