[Billthedrill]

I blame the metric system. “Perfesser, how many millimeters is 5/32 of an inch?” “I dunno, kid, just keep trying sockets until one of them fits.” Well, that is the right answer...

[Nateman]

3.96875 . Because it is so close to 4 mm that usually works. Jimmy Carter was President when there was a program to convert America to metric in ten years so I learned it at the time. It was useful knowledge for science since most science had long since had gone metric.

[jimmango]

I blame the metric system. “Perfesser, how many millimeters is 5/32 of an inch?” “I dunno, kid, just keep trying sockets until one of them fits.” Well, that is the right answer...

There are two types of countries in the world. Those who use the metric system and those who have been on the moon.