Originally Posted by vane171

We are lucky not having the old English currency and I think also their measuring system, that was something really devious. We are lucky that measuring calipers nowadays can display imperial values in fractional notation as well as decimal and convert btw the metric and imperial on the fly. With my carpenter friend, when we have done something together, I got used to call 1/16" parts the 'little guys' I would say for example, that it measures one and a half inch plus two little guys, which would be one and five eighth of an inch