clshades
Well-known member
The math is pretty simple. You multiply the decimal by the fraction you want to be closest to and round up or sometimes down.Imperial measurements.... WTF were they thinking? And WHY did I buy my tools this way. First thing I bought was the table saw and it was in imperial. So as a dumbass I just thought I'd continue that way. It makes me so mad. Impossible to get precise measurements. What makes it worse is that that a lot of the hardware you buy is in metric. If I draw a cabinet in CAD, everything is in decimal points. So I have to download a stupid woodworking calculator on my phone to convert. 19.4" = 19 13/32". Ridiculous.....
So, .4x32 = 12.8 or 13/32.
.4x8 = 3.2 or 3/8 plus a hair lol....
Had to do this on blue prints in decimal inches and yes it fucking sucked. Anyone who didn't know the math, fucked up constantly. Most prints are metric so I always have a dual tape just in case.