rutellthesinful

what scenario are you imagining where any of meta's product offerings are useful to me?

tfw your national strategic reserve of facebook posts is depleted

even if you're in a situation where it's somehow possible to manually draw 1/3 of a mm to any accuracy, 1/3 scale draft rulers still exist for metric, so it's equivalent

I seem to remember you as the one who brought up calculators

because as soon as you have access to a calculator, "off the top of your head" is an irrelevance

well yeah, because 1/8" is 3.175mm

1/3 of a mm is a distance between 1/64" and 1/128"

mechanical pencil lead is only about 0.4mm

I still don’t see how a calculator helps though.

don't ask me ask the person who posed the "what's a third of 9.5mm" question

using a ruler to measure a length of 1/8" is as accurate as using a ruler to measure a length of 31mm and eyeballing 2/3 of a mm

the bottleneck at that point is your eyeball and pencil lead, not the unit of measurement

the one third of 9.5 conundrum, which was posed by a metric defender

they weren't a metric defender

which is literally not true

what scenario is there in your mind where you'd need a precision answer to what 1/3 of 9.5mm is, but also not have access to a calculator? and of those scenarios, how many of them would be solved by the knowledge that 1/3 of 1/8 is 1/24? i'm willing to bet the answer is more or less "none".

and for those that do exist, you can also get drafting rulers that give you 1/3rds of metric measurements.

the accuracy of your equipment isn't somehow better because you're dealing with fractions rather than decimal points

i don't really like replying to such a long comment with such a short one, but i feel like i need to remind you that the thing that started this chain was

Quick off the top of your head, what’s a third of 9.5mm?

reaching for a string in that situation would be puzzling to me

18ths would need two divisions by three, but thankfully dividing a known measured length by three is easy with a piece of string.

what kind of cartoon fantasyland do you live in where it's easier to find a piece of string than it is a calculator?

also, all of this is assuming you have your drafting ruler to hand

do you carry it around with you in your pocket on a day-to-day basis? some deep fucking pockets you've got there, although I suppose you already that to the 1/24th inch

They can be measured, calculated and double checked

my guy, we're talking about accuracies of millimeters here: you're not "double checking" your 12" ruler is accurate by slapping your bare carpet gripper up on the drafting table

we no longer live in the pre-industrial age

thinking that knowing that 1/3 * 1/8 = 1/24 is something that anybody wouldn't know is stupid

the point is the impracticality of the result being essentially equivalent to 95/3

so in other words you're helpless in that situation?

we can play the same game with 1/18th or whatever if you want

okay then my answer to the hypothetical is 9.5/3, which is every bit as easy to find on any measurement device, or to use for any practical purpose, as 1/24th

what's a 1/3 of 1/8th of an inch?