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  1. 07-13-2020, 8:52 AM #5
    Curt Harms
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    Quote Originally Posted by David Bassett View Post
    I'd guess, working in the US, you'll end up choosing inches & fractions because so many of our supplies are imperial and marked that way.
    I think that's the biggest reason to use inches and fractions. If I lived in a country that had been metric my entire life I'm sure I'd find Imperial measurements odd and foreign. As mentioned, calculations are far simpler in metric than inches and fractions.
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