I grew up in a metric using country, I didn't learn imperial until I had to for a job. I came to appreciate the way being broken into 16ths, 8ths, 4trs, and halves really worked well for hands on practical things.
Unfortunately, I had to work in decimal inches a lot and had to convert back and forth between metric and that's where the arbitrariness of the imperial system began to make my brain hurt.
1.181 inches will forever be burned in my mind as the near almost but still not quite exact equivalent of 3cm...and the day the customer took out a measuring tape and lost their mind because we gave them something 3cm, what it was sold as and agreed upon by them as, and not the 1.25 inches they expected. The material we produced with came in 3cm not an inch and a quarter. For some reason, the customer believed they were getting inch and a quarter material despite it never being listed anywhere in any plans or marketing they received from us and despite the material not being manufactured in any thicknesses other than 2cm or 3cm. They literally threw the measuring tape at my coworker over those .069 inches...
Sucks that your customer didn’t pay attention to the details, but I can understand losing your mind over a 0.069 inch mistake. That’s greater than 1/16 inch. It’s huge.
In fact, I think that would be outside of any allowable tolerance in any industry I can think of, except for maybe rough-in framing in home construction.
Curious, what was the medium and how expensive was this mistake?
Unfortunately, I had to work in decimal inches a lot and had to convert back and forth between metric and that's where the arbitrariness of the imperial system began to make my brain hurt.
1.181 inches will forever be burned in my mind as the near almost but still not quite exact equivalent of 3cm...and the day the customer took out a measuring tape and lost their mind because we gave them something 3cm, what it was sold as and agreed upon by them as, and not the 1.25 inches they expected. The material we produced with came in 3cm not an inch and a quarter. For some reason, the customer believed they were getting inch and a quarter material despite it never being listed anywhere in any plans or marketing they received from us and despite the material not being manufactured in any thicknesses other than 2cm or 3cm. They literally threw the measuring tape at my coworker over those .069 inches...