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themodelplumber on July 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

What are some reasons to use inch units in screen-based CSS, aside from this kind of project?

Edit: Removed all sentiment to my profile, leaving a beautifully rational shell of a comment.

klyrs on July 4, 2020 [–]

If you need to rive a 5cm length in twain and you don't like fractions. Or if you're making a website devoted to larval geometer moths.

dragonwriter on July 4, 2020 | [–]

> If you need to rive a 5cm length in twain and you don't like fractions

125/127 is as much of a fraction as 1/2.

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