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1/16" + 3/4"

Adding two fractions of an inch, exactly — the everyday jobsite arithmetic that a decimal calculator gets wrong. Reduced, carried, and shown in millimetres.

1/16" + 3/4" =
=0-13/16"
Sum
0-13/16"
Decimal inch
0.8125"
Millimetres
20.6375 mm
1/16" − 3/4"
-0-11/16"
The work

Over a common denominator

Put both over 16: 1/16 = 1/16 and 3/4 = 12/16. Add the tops: 1/16 + 12/16 = 13/16. Reduced, that's 0-13/16" (0.8125 inches). TapeMath tracks it as an exact fraction, so it lands dead on the tape mark.
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