Timeline for What are "B/E-inch slices"?
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| Feb 2, 2019 at 18:10 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @alephzero: Canadians understand inches, too, unfortunately, because of cross-border influence from the US. At least we also usually understand metric for most things, but we use Fahrenheit for oven temperatures vs. Celsius for indoor/outdoor temps... And feet + inches for people's heights. It's really annoying. | |
| Feb 2, 2019 at 16:24 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | It’s not really a peculiarity of the font encoding as much as it is a matter of the PDF file having been set using a very old font. Back in the day, when the number of glyphs in a font was limited, you’d have to use alternate fonts for things like small caps, math symbols – and fractions. The main text here is set in Gotham, but the fractions are set in a font called Neutra Text Book Fractions, in which ¹ is located at the code point that actually belongs to B and ₄ at the one belonging to E. So the text literally does say “B/E”, just in a font where B looks like ¹ and E like ₄. | |
| Feb 2, 2019 at 0:17 | comment | added | alephzero | @only_pro If "why" in your comment meant "why is it hard to measure chickens to 0.01mm" the answer is simply that they keep crossing the road. | |
| Feb 2, 2019 at 0:14 | comment | added | alephzero | @only_pro Americans do all sorts of weird things, including using crazy measurement units that nobody else in the world understands. And assuming you are one of them, they often don't understand the British sense of humo(u)r, either. | |
| Feb 1, 2019 at 21:36 | comment | added | user91988 | @alephzero Er, why? Looks like it's a recipe written by an American, and Americans typically use inches for this sort of thing. | |
| Feb 1, 2019 at 18:50 | vote | accept | Walt | ||
| Feb 1, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | alephzero | They should really be 6.35mm slices, but it's hard to measure chickens to the nearest 0.01mm. | |
| Feb 1, 2019 at 17:02 | comment | added | Nick T | But Unicode has a ¼ (U+00BC Vulgar Fraction One Quarter) | |
| Feb 1, 2019 at 14:18 | comment | added | zovits | So it is basically a reason to use UTF-8 and decimal notation instead of fractions? :) | |
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| Feb 1, 2019 at 9:35 | history | answered | Stephen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |