Re: The rye bread! Result and troubleshooting.

On 2024-08-13, dsi1 <dsi100@yahoo.com> wrote:

Rulers don't usually come in 10th of an inch. 16ths of an inch would be
more common. 2-13/16" would be close enough. I don't like the number
13/16 though.
The truth is that I would usually just convert the inches to mm and then
divide by whatever i.e., 216mm/3 = 72mm. Easy as pie.

When I was in high school, (1961-1964), we were told that the U.S. would
soon be switching to metric. Soon, mechanical measurement, and nothing
else did.
Because of my major, I'm familiar with metric weight and volume
measurements, but distance is a mystery to me. 100 kilometers has
something to do with .62. A meter is about 3 inches more than a yard.
So, what's a foot? Nearly all home measurements here are in feet.
So far, our "conversion to metric" has cost me one additional set of tools.
Plumbers haven't bought into it, so I still need a 1/2 inch wrench!
I was lied to, by those in charge, when I was a kid!