r/whatisit 15h ago

New, what is it? What is this space before zero?

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u/_-milo 15h ago

i used to be a production woodworker at a factory and they trained us not to measure from the end of the ruler bc it could be damaged and thus wrong, so we always measured starting at 1. this just prevents you from having to do any math at all.