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8.5" is not any easier to divide than 297mm. Try dividing 8.5" by 8. What is that? 12 pebbles and 14 glibglobs each?
1" and a sixteenth.
Ah yes - a system that uses both fractions and decimals!
Don't bother, it seems the metric are allergic to fractions that aren't irrational.
^/s
It's 1.06 Which is close enough to just do 1 inch cuts. Super easy. No possible better way to do it.