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

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

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...

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[&:]

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

Yeah like 1/8 rounds up to 1" LOL

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.

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.

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