Comment by craftkiller

If you go to the home depot page for torque wrenches and click the filter for drive size, you get this list:

  1/2 in
  1/4 in
  1 in
  3/8 in
  3/4 in
  Specialty

Here is the same list in decimal to make the insanity plainly obvious:

  0.5
  0.25
  1
  0.375
  0.75

What sadistic lunatic made that sort order?! It's not based on size and it's not alphabetic.