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I have one also. But I very seldom use it. My 35' tape does fine for most houses. When I use my 100". I use the 1" scale (mine has both). Almost all construction materials are measured using inches. Ever buy a precut stud. They are not sold as 92.625" studs.
No. But we are not surveyors nor are we surveying. So your point is? I have no problem with how anybody chooses to measure. Each to his own. But I fail to see how one is better than the other as some claim. I personally like to be consistent in how I do things. When I was in construction. It was inches. When I do work around the house. It is in inches. Why do it differently when I measure someone else's house.
Every survey I see was created by PLS's using equipment that costs thousands of dollars and is calibrated often.
If surveyors have to reconcile their measurements that don't close (and a lot of older homes won't) why doesn't ANSI have a "method" for closing the loop?
50.4 x 24.2 = 1220 rounded and it takes no math whiz to know that in reality when 2 sides are unequal the opposing sides cannot be identical (but perhaps at the level of precision...rounding) and if you round, what are the rules of rounding?In the old days the original surveys were done with a large compass and chains (100 links in a 66' chain which as it wore became longer...) And the corp of engineers used the plane table and alidade with a steel 100' tape up into the 1960s.
But like Britain, we'll still be using both. I cannot see an advantage.
Calculators work with tenths, not inches.
So what. Would only be an issue if you are using hand drawn sketch in your reports
