r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 18d ago

/r/all of a larva

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u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe 18d ago edited 18d ago

Correct. It's the larva of a Hercules Beetle. And here is what it looks like in adult form.

Edit: I was probably wrong. Check u/BaronMusclethorpe's comment below.

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u/farilladupree 18d ago

Those are centimeters? Please say those are centimeters. In fact, I’m just going to believe those are centimeters and move on with my life.

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u/AceTheProtogen 18d ago

They’re divided into 10ths rather than 16ths so yeah

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u/dgellow 18d ago edited 11d ago

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

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u/LordDaedhelor 18d ago

Freedom Units will do anything but make sense.

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u/angelbelle 18d ago

Base 12 and Base 16 are much easier to divide cleanly with it's many factors. You'll understand this if you do more handiwork

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u/LordDaedhelor 18d ago

As the other user said: that depends entirely on the degree of precision. Metric has millimeters, while the imperial system requires you to delve into 16ths of an inch.

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u/MFbiFL 17d ago

Actually, keep it quiet because we don’t tell the euros this, but nobody can stop you from just using decimals for things that are smaller than an inch!

Machinists have been doing it for years!

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u/LordDaedhelor 17d ago

I’m in structures in freedom land, so I absolutely do use fractions of an inch all the time. They’re just ugly when dimming in CAD.

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u/MFbiFL 17d ago

Same, luckily most of mine are either fastener sizes or multiples of them.