On a typical inch ruler the smallest lines are 1/16th dimensions. The next biggest are 1/8th", then 1/4", and finally 1/2".
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The "tiny lines" that make up an inch on a ruler are centimeters.
why are the division lines on a ruler diffrent lengths
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They denote different fractions of the inch. A good engineers ruler will have 64 ths, 32 nds 16 ths and 8 ths at least.
Typically the smallest lines are a sixteenth of an inch apart. Some rulers may show thirty-seconds or sixty-fourths of an inch.