Read an engineers` tape measure (in decimal feet)

[@doylerabjohn3435]

Thanks, you made it easy, I was riding my bicycle a couple months ago & found a tape measure like this on the sidewalk & was trying to figure out how to read it.

[@mrthomas7511]

I'm in my late 30s and I have a young kid teaching me. This video is exactly what I needed omg thank you!!!!

[@franki480]

I really appreciate how easily you explained this. Thank you

[@ryanmons5910]

I was just going to say the same exact thing. That was super easy to understand and very basic but really appreciated.

[@Mr1laker]

Thank you I been doing construction for years on inch measuring tape switching to engineers is confusing but thanks for helping with this video it’s a good reminder now time for calculating

[@ryanweaver962]

Interestingly… owning and understanding the how’d and when’s and what’s of these common currencies within your own culture and region… applies to other same but different stories of other cultures… diversity of contexts and languages over time. The intersection points of those contexts help better understand local eco systems and larger interactions in fluid miners and within time and space. I need to take algebra again…. It’s so cool.

[@Catalysis1144]

what brand/model tape you are using? am trying to find one with both metric and decimal feet around 33ft long but could not find one yet

[@apprenticemath]

LUFKIN (sorry about the 4 month wait, ... )

[@jamesherndon3504]

You do a great job on these videos, friend. I very much enjoy watching them. If I could add a little criticism, I would suggest for filming and instructional purposes, that you keep the tails of your 9s straight so they do not look like lower case Gs, which might confuse some. Thanks for the videos, mate.

[@apprenticemath]

James Herndon Thanks for the tip & thanks for watching! (I`m slightly dislexic with 9999 gggg characters)

[@alyosha1974]

+James Herndon I know in Germany they often make their 9's look like g's. Could be a few more countries in Europe that do that too.

[@MichaelE.Douroux]

Hi, I know this is awhile back, but would you happen to remember the brand of tape (with 100ths) you used in your demonstration? Thanks!

[@apprenticemath]

LUFKIN (sorry about the 4 month wait, ... )

[@armorvestrus4119]

Excellent video.

[@apprenticemath]

Glad you liked it!

[@nicknilsen7758]

What brand tape is that? I need a decimal foot/ metric tape.

[@apprenticemath]

Lufkin HI-VIZ

[@astig7135]

how do you read 1/4 of an inch in there then?

[@eugeneyang5678]

@La-di Da-di, 1/4 of an inch would be 0.25” in U.S.A. Tape Measure & 1/4” on this tape measure out of a foot would be 0.0208333 feet long (0.0208333’ = 1/48’) 1/48 feet long is 1/4 of an inch on this 10th decimal feet tape measure. It is so short and tiny that you will have to line it up with another foot ruler to actually get it right on the mark. I recommend using a metallic lead pencil instead of a wooden #1 or #2 pencil that is dandelion yellow with a pink eraser on top that U.S.A. Makes to write it very neatly and colored pens like he used on this video may be permanently unerasable.

[@GH-oi2jf]

The units of the engineer’s scale are feet, tenths, and hundredths. If you want feet, inches, and fractions, you use the carpenter’s scale.

[@eugeneyang5678]

@@GH-oi2jf , Yes I already know that and thank you for confirming to me that this is in 10ths and 100ths of a foot because it is not an engineering tape measure nor it is not an carpenter scale.

[@GH-oi2jf]

@@eugeneyang5678 - The lower edge is an engineer’s scale. The upper edge is metric.

[@eugeneyang5678]

@@GH-oi2jf , I like the metric system and I can read it just as easy as the U.S.A. standard system. I am good at math and I am average or a little bad with English and literature. (I am better in math than English & Language Arts personally).

[@danielcastro7104]

Life saver not use to site work and this helped

[@ryanweaver962]

If we consider Values in complex terms and the insights in which they are supported… the positive feedback loops are not just “nice” it helps ease bias and conversations. The old phrase about drawing swamps and ap to your ass in alligators… the North Star thinking helps keep the tacking on better tracking. The actual insights get nuanced. Any, KPI can lead to end points… the better insights and connections help a lot

[@melinabrown3185]

thank you so much, this video helped me a lot!

[@dukebud22]

Hello! Can you please advise what brand of tape measure you are using? At my employer we need tapes with decimal inches and metric mm scales such as the one you show in the video, I cannot find it anywhere. Please advise. Thanks! RK

[@apprenticemath]

Rod K Think legal surveryors. Instruments. Laser. Optics. Pro tripods. You find this measuring tape in a surveyors` supply store, along with waterproof notepads & markers, hi-viz tapes, etc. This tape has decimal FEET. If you need decimal INCHES, such as kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zpyblamaac1parM, get them from a machinists` supply store. Inch/feet-based AND mm 2-in-1 tapes are sold in countries where both systems are around, Canada for sure, maybe elsewhere too but Stanley or any brand such tapes are mostly made in China, so can be sourced out from them at the point of manufacturing too.

[@MrTheflash07]

Awesome! Love it! ❤️

[@apprenticemath]

Glad you like it!

[@eugeneyang5678]

I grew up reading the engineering tape with decimal feet and learned the metric system in kindergarten. 1 inch = 0.083 feet & 2.54 centimeters, 2 inches is 0.168 feet & 5.08 centimeters, 3 inches is 0.25 feet & 7.62 centimeters, 4 inches is 0.334 feet & 10.16 centimeters, 5 inches is 0.418 feet & 12.7 centimeters, 6 inches is 0.5 feet & 15.24 centimeters, 7 inches is 0.584 feet & 17.78 centimeters, 8 inches is 0.668 feet & 20.32 centimeters, 9 inches is 0.75 feet & 22.86 centimeters, 10 inches is 0.834 feet & 25.4 centimeters, 11 inches is 0.918 feet & 27.94 centimeters & 1 foot is 30.48 centimeters. 2 inches is 1/6 of a foot & 0.5 hands, 3 inches is 1/4 of a foot, 4 inches is 1/3 of a foot & 1 hand, 6 inches is 1/2 foot & 1.5 hand, 8 inches is 2/3 of a foot & 2 hands, 9 inches is 3/4 of a foot & 2.25 hands, 10 inches is 5/6 of a foot and 2.5 hands & 1 foot is 3 hands. 1 inch is 8.34% of a foot, 2 inches is 16.68% of a foot, 3 inches is 25% of a foot, 4 inches is 33.34% of a foot, 5 inches is 41.68% of a foot, 6 inches is 50% of a foot, 7 inches is 58.34% of a foot, 8 inches is 66.68% of a foot, 9 inches is 75% of a foot, 10 inches is 83.34% of a foot, 11 inches is 91.68% of a foot & of course 12 inches is 100% of a foot. Did I help and is my information correct? You should all know that 1 inch is 1/12 of a foot, 0.083 feet, 8.34% of a foot, 2.54 centimeters & 0.25 hands as the start of basic.

[@charliewecker]

Why?

[@eugeneyang5678]

@ⒸⓗⓐⓇⓛⓘⒺ, Because that was the part of my education when I was back in Elementary School since the year 2001. Sorry Charlie and too bad if you disagree or dislike this video because this is 100% acutely the correct measurement though out the whole world. Metric System came first and it was original before the English Standard System. Don’t be a wannabe because I got god and Jesus with me. It’s a true fact and if you are rude and disrespectful then you get the bad karma and the negative consequences. Go look up your favorite subject if you are not interested in this math topic such as counting money and bills. Don’t argue with me because this is our business or else test grade F- = 40 to 59% correct and 41 to 60% incorrect for you. I watched your videos and you just named yourself after a pet male dog named Charlie like all dogs go to heaven. You live in the State of Georgia, you own a rifle as your firearm and film disturbing images of deceased animals and do drugs. You opened a can of beer or soda with a knife, and filmed a trash can, urinated in your own household bedroom, your toilet has a scratched toilet cover seat with nails and pins all over it and you were running like a maniac after being tardy and got late to work and not arrive on time to your job place. By the way, you only got a very few likes on your videos and mostly dislikes.

[@eugeneyang5678]

I also learned cursive and hand writing on how to do a report rough draft, middle draft and final draft essays in part of my literature in language arts and English class since I was back in 3rd (third) grade. Let me ask you, how did you get your Charlie name in bubble letters and you have a devil or satan profile picture with a blue jean jacket, a bloody face and skin as a serial killer on your KZbin profile icon picture. Leave me alone and please stop because I don’t even know you.

[@Persun_McPersonson]

Interesting! I've never heard of someone who grew up learning decimal feet rather than the usual feet + inches + halving-based fractions of an inch version of the customary or imperial systems. Where did you grow up to learn metric in kindergarten, and who was teaching you decimal feet-the school or your parents?

[@Persun_McPersonson]

@@eugeneyang5678 I'm not sure Charlie was asking with malicous intent, but either way Charlie would not have inherently gotten any negative consequences from being potentially disrespectful in this conversation because karma, God, and Jesus are not "true facts," they are in no way scientific explanations for the world and belong with the old English units rather than the more-logical metric system. Also, you shouldn't let a random stranger on the internet just curiously asking "Why?'" to get you so riled up to where you dig into their profile so you can make an entire paragraph insulting them. If Charlie was indeed being rude, then you have actually been _extra_ rude, as he in no way went so far as you did to be disrespectful. So my point is that you're being a bit of a hypocrite.

[@에라나엘머]

Thank u sir..please more upload about scale tape. .new subscribers sir..please help me about engineer parts..trigonometry and phytagorian

[@apprenticemath]

Thanks for the tips & watching

[@gregwalker4236]

thank you!

[@MrDarknightkiller]

Thank you but it looks like your writing with the wrong hand

[@ryanweaver962]

Man, common language of measurement or translations… hmmm, I’ve been meaning to learn more about coding…. Currency of issues and/or insights or topics…. It is an important work… The history of language, carbon exchanges, dollars, yen, rubles etc… the context of time and inflation and geographic application of supply and demand and markets. The question of why the US never went metric all the way or why keyboards are lined up that way… these things matter. #LoveEVICTShate.

[@randallgoguen3463]

Thank you

[@patlab555]

Smart people would have use the above system (metric as your tape show= 150cm =1.5metre or =1500mm done) instead of going to calculate things....

[@GH-oi2jf]

He isn’t doing any calculation here. He is just showing how to read the scale. When calculations need to be done, there is no difference between using a scale of cm and tenths, and a scale of feet, tenths, and hundredths. They are just decimal numbers in each case.

[@patlab555]

@@GH-oi2jf Wow, 3 years later a reply and I did not even recall the video, *but you're right!* I may have written my comment at 2 AM asleep. Thanks for your comment and the wake-up.

[@Greasybiscuit-__-]

I love you

[@ronilopaca5793]

How to read 0.90

[@lorenzojuarez4971]

John coffee

[@kafijama9240]

Try writing your 9 like a 9 not a g

[@apprenticemath]

I tried

[@eugeneyang5678]

@@apprenticemath , The same with me, I used to write the #9 like the lower case letter g and I used to write the #5 as the Lower Case & The Uppercase Letter S’s when I was a teenager kid since I was a 13 year old boy back when I was younger in 7th grade Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 Class.

[@Roel_Scoot]

Don't be daft, go metric!

[@apprenticemath]

Roeland Voogd All blueprints are metric, all engineering is metric, all the math is metric, all materials are inch-based. Tell the manufacturers, too.

[@Roel_Scoot]

apprenticemath I know the problem, even in Europe we have to cope with some materials with Angelsaxon measures. But it is never a problem for me: take your own measures with metric equipment and dont bother with the sometimes quaint numbers as for instance the 2,45 mm pitch of an IC footprint.

[@apprenticemath]

Roeland Voogd Totally works. This decimal foot scale on this tape is widely used by surveryors in North America. It`s not relevant anywhere else. The numbers are not making sense to any trades, site layout by carpenters is done in feet-inches (on an inch-based project). Decimal feet are used in calculations, say how much does glass cost if a 62-inch by 43-inch piece is needed, $8 per square foot. 62 inch = 5.1666 feet, 3.583333 feet, after multiplication = 18.5 sq.ft. x $8 = $148.11 It`s practically medieval, when the workers showing up for any new cathedral project were given a length standard, say Hessian foot, and everybody copied that scale and worked with it on that site only. As a result, columns, beams, arches, doors are not interchangeable from one cathedral to another, they are all different even if they look identical architecturally.

[@charliewecker]

@@apprenticemath That's a very interesting bit about the cathedral measurements. Thanks.

[@JuanCastillo-uu2em]

Thank you

[@astig7135]

Thank you

[@mccannlandscaping5807]

Thank you