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[โ€“] MossyHabitat 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All plans use mm exclusively. Airport blueprints, for example, are in mm. At first blush it seems excessive, but it makes sense from a consistency & accuracy POV - 6.096m takes up 2 more characters than 6096 - they don't even need to specify the units "mm", because it is assumed, and anything else introduces room for error.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

"Ok Bob, we're going to build a runway, it needs to be 3,962,000 mm long"