Why do they say 4/8
 

When scoring Bucks why do they persist in engaging in improper mathmatics?
4/8 = 1/2 correct?
Any Deer PHD's in the crowd?

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If you're measuring in 1/8's,then 4/8 is a valid fraction.It would be harder to add up total measurements if you used differant fractions(1/2" + 5/8" + 3/4" + 7/8",etc...)--much easier to keep them on the same base

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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.

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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...

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Personally never had a problem with 1/8th's. I find it easy to add or subtract in 1/8 increments when scoring game. Seems pretty logical to me[&:]

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I'd rather round up to the closest inch, it would make us feel better when we shot a smaller buck.
Ha-ha!

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Yeah like 1/8 rounds up to 1" LOL

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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.

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it goes by 1/8 ths so therefore its easier to identify 3/8 is larger than 2/8 etc..and by how much, vs. how much bigger is 5/8 over a 1/4 or 1/2 etc.....I like the the method of measurement, no reason to base on being mathmatically correct/simplified.

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It's all about having a common denominator for adding & subtracting. And, like salukipv1 said, it's probably easier for some peope to "see" the difference on paper between 1/2 & 5/8.

And the gas prices...I argue with people about this all the time. lol Almost everybody I know will see a price at say, $3.09 & 9/10 and say gas is $3.09. No, in my mind it's $3.10. I think it's just a marketing ploy...I could be wrong though (I have been before). lol

RE: Why do they say 4/8
 

its for people who cant add berry dood

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10ths best idea yet and easy to convert decimal to common fractions. eg .96 = 15/16 .50 = 4/8

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I guess thats just the way it is

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It is the easiest way to do it, and if you can't figure out how to convert 1/8ths, then you have bigger problems.

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That's the best answer to this test!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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There is nothing mathmatically incorrect orimproper about using the fraction 4/8 or6/8 instead of 1/2 or 3/4. Though it's quite common to reduce to the least common factor it's certainly not necessary. For scoring deer it's perfectly reasonable to keep all values in eighths. As someone said, it makes comparing numbers easier if the denominator is held constant.

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kant tawk oar rite neethar.

seriously though, metric system, its time.

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The standard measurement in the lumber industry is 1/4's. For instance, a 2" board is referred to as an 8/4. And the size refers to the size of the board rough, before it is planed and ready to sell, so a 2x4 actually starts out as a 2" x 4" but once it is planed on all 4 sides, it is only 1 3/4" x 3 3/4".

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yes i knew that in the old days 2x4s were just that 2x4s
i am redoing a old house 1920s
that has true 2x4 that measure 2x4 but are not smooth or beveled on the edges they are rough cut 2x4s
some even go from 2x4 to 2 1/2x41/2 or lower