Post #1528532
2026-04-20 18:38 UTC
@neauoire Apparently it is not a rare thing in oilfield work? I recently watched this https://youtu.be/sdWEGzWFcCc?t=276 which has lots of other fascinating horrible units, but that's the bit that talks about "decimal feet".
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@neauoire@merveilles.town 2026-04-20 18:43
@blakecoverett holy crap, you can't return to working in the normal world after that
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@khm@hj.9fs.net 2026-04-20 19:22
it's not just in oilfields. surveyors use decimal feet (and decimal "US survey feet" which are different) and that's almost certainly a surveyor's tape. decimal feet used to be somewhat common in all kinds of engineering, but it seems to have stuck around longest in civil engineering. CC: @neauoire@merveilles.town