Actually I find it's the opposite--people doing the math in their heads often find single-digit decimals easier to work with than fractions.
For example, when .8 mils is your dope for a 10 MPH wind, you estimate average windspeed at 6 MPH, that's a .5 Mil hold. Very easy. Very fast. If your dope is 2.75 MOA or 2 3/4 MOA, that times .6 = ....not something most want to try and do quickly in their heads.
If you're getting the answer spit out of a device for every shot, it doesn't matter as much.
I've got a lot of numbers rolling around in my head every day from my job dealing with high tech computer controlled machinery. I find that shifting gears to my hobby takes a real focus for me. I just cannot keep all the reticle math in my bad memory mind.
I hear what you are saying about decimals, but I am wired for yards. I would transition if I thought it were easier. 1 moa at 100 yds is for all practical purposes 1 inch. That seems simpler right out the gate for me.
I have to focus and go over the trig again; but I thought the basis for simplicity with mildots was the fact that the tangent of one mil-radian is .001
Help an idiot out here!! LOL
