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		jhurliman 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Infinite Pixels The Sumerians were on to something: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal

ahazred8ta 5 months ago [–]

In engineering, they used to use the foot ' inch '' line ''' and point '''' where each unit was 1/12th the size of the previous one. The european typographic point used to be 1/144th of an inch. Watch components are measured in points.

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