• gentooer
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    7 months ago

    6096 mm does sound really stupid when you could just say 6.096 m.

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      7 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.