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dghughes on July 16, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: How do jewellers capture every last particle of go...

You did. All your (USA) units use metric then are converted to US measurements. The US inch is officially 25.4mm exactly.

https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/si-units-length

ddingus on July 16, 2024 [–]

Yup. And more things are SI units every day.

I use them most of time now. We are getting there slowly.

dghughes on July 17, 2024 | [–]

Wrapped in ham to fool the masses.

ddingus on July 17, 2024 | | [–]

Lol, sure.

I just made sure I did my homework so I can operate with anyone.

And it was huge. I have few worries.

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