Dimensioning to 1/8" Accuracy?

[Tim O'Donnell]

Originally posted by James Eggert
A simple enough question here is "Why did ART set dimensioning this way?". For what psuedo reasoning?

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here's my guess... this is left over from when systems had much more limited resources than they do now...dropping the extra numbers and b-slash saved a bit of space...remember programs used to run off those 5 1/2" floppies