• MossyHabitat@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    All plans use mm exclusively. Airport blueprints, for example, are in mm. At first blush it seems excessive, but it makes sense from a consistency & accuracy POV - 6.096m takes up 2 more characters than 6096 - they don’t even need to specify the units “mm”, because it is assumed, and anything else introduces room for error.

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      9 months ago

      “Ok Bob, we’re going to build a runway, it needs to be 3,962,000 mm long”