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EMUs always seemed weirder to me. Like an unnecessary compromise instead of just using metric outright.

https://startbigthinksmall.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/points-i...

Oh they're a super weird unit for sure. But I do kinda like that it allows expressing both 100ths of an inch and 10ths of a millimetre as an integer. I wonder if they're a carryover from early versions of MS Word when CPU power was more limited?

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