Surveying "rules of thumb"

Radar

It's hard to hold my finger next to the tape and manage the camera.... Anyway, you get the idea where the tenth is at.

> 11) Surveyors work in feet, tenths, and hundredths. The only people who work in inches are carpenters and... and... and...
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> I can't remember that other group.

I used to do stake out work for Occidental Inc, mostly Bechtel oil and gas plant drawings, and they used feet, inches and quarters, eighths, tenths, sixteenths. Survey kit was all metric so used an 'intrinsically safe' calculator to convert, soon got round to memorising familiar conversions and making mental shortcuts.