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  1. Customer tried to convey desired dimensions of something for me to print. Kept typing out things like 4.1/2x3, and I'm looking at it perplexed, like, "okay, 2x3 but what is the 4.1 part?"

    Turns Out™ they were trying to tell me 4.5 x 3 (aka 4½ x 3).

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