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by legulere 1 day ago
An inch is 1/36 yd or 1/12 ft or 6 pica or 72 pt. There is no power of two whatsoever in this.
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Neither 1/36th or 1/12th are used, and the other two aren't fractions. We don't say six and a twelfth feet, we say six feet one inch. With distance, fractions are only used for fractions of an inch (apart from trivial uses like "one and a half miles").