thanks for the replies...typed that while i was drunk
but the best i could think up was thats just to show the degree of precision he was using...like its not 9 mm, not 11 mm, but 10 mm.
not sure if that makes sense, but its just slightly foreign to me the automatic ways of expressing it.
metric makes ALOT more sense (obviously, no secret here), and they are employing it more and more in general; public schools are to the point where we prefer it in sciences, and at work all we use is metric (body shop).