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  • @unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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    59 hours ago

    Sorry for being pedantic, but those foldable work rulers are exactly 2 m long (at least in MetricLandia), which is, incidentally, the span of IQ values (0-200).

    So yeah, it literally can be mapped one-to-one to a (common type of) ruler.

    A photo of an IQ ruler

    • @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      33 hours ago

      This is a common ruler where you live?

      In my country we have rulers with 12 in/ ~30cm as the most common. We also have “yardstick” which is more often a meter stick now. But no foldable rulers.

      • @unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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        134 minutes ago

        Yup. There are like 3 types of rulers: normal (a stick), foldable (this) and those retractable metallic strips.

        Sticks are usually either 15 or 30 cm, while the foldables are literally always 2m.

        The coils are the most ubiquitous, but I orefer the foldavles for most things since they tend to fall undet their own weight when measuring longer distances. These sre either 2 or 5 m I think.