Talk:Inch
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[edit]I am from Germany and i read about a girl who is 5'3" tall. So is she 5 foot and 3 inch tall?
- Yes, she is 1,60 m. If you had read this article or Zoll you should have known. Christoph Päper
Discussion relating to notation of recurring decimals in this article
[edit]For the record, see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Overlining a problem. Any discussion should be taken there. Graham87 (talk) 17:09, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
- I added the qualifier (approximately) in the equivalents section because the template truncates the repeating decimals, and there is no better way to show that. Dhaluza (talk) 02:35, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
US survey inches - no direct sources, OR conclusion
[edit]The Inch#US survey inches section currently says This implies that the survey inch was replaced by the international inch.
This is of course a breach of WP:OR, which I suppose seemed necessary because no WP:RS on the matter could be found. On examination, that's not surprising; the only sources for this section don't mention a survey inch either, only units of a foot or more. It may seem obvious that if there is (or was) a survey foot there must be a survey inch, but that doesn't mean there's any substance here or any point in having this section. I'm inclined to remove it. NebY (talk) 18:50, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
- Esri's ArcGIS Pro 3.1 supports the survey inch, and defines it as 1.0/39.37 meters. Our article about Esri claims "Esri is the world's leading supplier of GIS software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications." My experience, which includes search and rescue for the Civil Air Patrol, tends to agree with this. Jc3s5h (talk) 19:42, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
Hexadecimal subdivisions
[edit]Rulers customarily divide inches into sixteenths, which explains their usual fractional representation. JMGN (talk) 08:50, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- It is the other way around. Inches are often specified as 4,8,16,32,64 fractions, hence those divisions on rulers. By the way, engineer's rulers often divide all the way down to 1/64 for at least a portion of the ruler. Correspondingly, metric uses cm and mm, so metric rulers show cm and 1/10 divisions for mm. Stepho talk 10:40, 8 October 2024 (UTC)