And the beauty of the inch is that the foot and yard are based on the number 12, the inch itself is based on the number 10.
Inch is based on 10 what? In my surveying days I have used the Foot-tenth, foot-inch and metric. Had no problem with any of them. I can't say the same for a lot of my crew members. At times we used two or all three on the same jobs. It was a relief when they went back to just two of them.
I was told when I started surveying that only Whores and Carpenters dealt in inches, but years later I was doing Bridge surveys and some were to widen the existing bridges. They wanted those measured in Inches, to see if the as built, matched the build plans. My crews always had trouble going back from tenths of a foot to inches. miles
