Why do they say 4/8
03-10-2008 | 01:56 PM
#16
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RE: Why do they say 4/8
your talking the metric system there
i think most people just read a tape different
i know i have said 4/8 even 6/8
but in school i was taught you round down to the smallest faction
I.E 4/8 =1/2
i think most people just read a tape different
i know i have said 4/8 even 6/8
but in school i was taught you round down to the smallest faction
I.E 4/8 =1/2
ORIGINAL: timbercruiser
I don't understand why they don't use 1/10ths instead of the 1/8ths. It would be easier to add up and just makes sense.
I don't understand why they don't use 1/10ths instead of the 1/8ths. It would be easier to add up and just makes sense.
03-10-2008 | 01:58 PM
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RE: Why do they say 4/8
never saw a 1inch board being called 4/4
now i do not get why they saw 2by4 when it is 1 3/4by3 3/4
now i do not get why they saw 2by4 when it is 1 3/4by3 3/4
ORIGINAL: kevin1
Such as a metric tape measure? Just think, if scoring went metric a 200 mm buck would be common. 
Why does the lumber industry still call a 1" board a 4/4? Why do gas pumps still have 9/10ths when it's physically impossible to calibrate the pump that way? It just sounds better, I guess.
ORIGINAL: SouthDakotaHunter
Standard tape measurers increment in 1/8's, so it would be extremely difficult to measure a buck in 1/10ths unless you had a tape that measured in 1/10's...
ORIGINAL: timbercruiser
I don't understand why they don't use 1/10ths instead of the 1/8ths. It would be easier to add up and just makes sense.
I don't understand why they don't use 1/10ths instead of the 1/8ths. It would be easier to add up and just makes sense.
Standard tape measurers increment in 1/8's, so it would be extremely difficult to measure a buck in 1/10ths unless you had a tape that measured in 1/10's...
Why does the lumber industry still call a 1" board a 4/4? Why do gas pumps still have 9/10ths when it's physically impossible to calibrate the pump that way? It just sounds better, I guess.
03-10-2008 | 02:01 PM
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RE: Why do they say 4/8
now you say we should go metric but change the decimal to standerd fractions
i think .96 is alot easy to get the 15/16
i think .96 is alot easy to get the 15/16
ORIGINAL: jiminns
10ths best idea yet and easy to convert decimal to common fractions. eg .96 = 15/16 .50 = 4/8
10ths best idea yet and easy to convert decimal to common fractions. eg .96 = 15/16 .50 = 4/8
03-10-2008 | 06:16 PM
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RE: Why do they say 4/8
ORIGINAL: bigtim6656
never saw a 1inch board being called 4/4
now i do not get why they saw 2by4 when it is 1 3/4by3 3/4
I was also wondering about that, I am a carpenter, so I work with a lot of fractions, and I have never seen a 1" board being called a 4ba4 (4x4)
never saw a 1inch board being called 4/4
now i do not get why they saw 2by4 when it is 1 3/4by3 3/4
I was also wondering about that, I am a carpenter, so I work with a lot of fractions, and I have never seen a 1" board being called a 4ba4 (4x4)
ORIGINAL: kevin1
Such as a metric tape measure? Just think, if scoring went metric a 200 mm buck would be common.
Why does the lumber industry still call a 1" board a 4/4? Why do gas pumps still have 9/10ths when it's physically impossible to calibrate the pump that way? It just sounds better, I guess.
ORIGINAL: SouthDakotaHunter
Standard tape measurers increment in 1/8's, so it would be extremely difficult to measure a buck in 1/10ths unless you had a tape that measured in 1/10's...
ORIGINAL: timbercruiser
I don't understand why they don't use 1/10ths instead of the 1/8ths. It would be easier to add up and just makes sense.
I don't understand why they don't use 1/10ths instead of the 1/8ths. It would be easier to add up and just makes sense.
Standard tape measurers increment in 1/8's, so it would be extremely difficult to measure a buck in 1/10ths unless you had a tape that measured in 1/10's...
Why does the lumber industry still call a 1" board a 4/4? Why do gas pumps still have 9/10ths when it's physically impossible to calibrate the pump that way? It just sounds better, I guess.
03-10-2008 | 06:29 PM
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RE: Why do they say 4/8
I was wondering that too. But a lot of people can't read a tape, so I am just guessing it is easiere for the not so inclined
I don't get it though, beacuse if you get a measurement at 9/16...then what?
Cause if you round up once, do you just go down on the next 1/16? and counter them or what
I don't get it though, beacuse if you get a measurement at 9/16...then what?
Cause if you round up once, do you just go down on the next 1/16? and counter them or what