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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 131 points 1 year ago

Americans will use anything but metric

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't touch the metric system with a 10-foof pole.

[-] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The correct answer is 2.58 metres.

[-] Rukmer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That made me laugh so hard I woke up my cats.

[-] WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

What's metric? Is that some kind of myth the Europeans invented? No thanks, Monarchists, I love my feets and freedoms.

[-] ponfriend@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Metric is a product of the French Revolution, as well as decimal currency like cents. Some decimalization from the French Revolution didn't catch on widely, like gradians for measuring angles or decimal minutes, hours, and weeks. The imperial units were standardized by various monarchies (hence the name).

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

We use decimal inches in machine shops, that's a metric system.

SI though, that's what gets people mad.

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Except for some reason you didn't come up with your own units for:

  • electric potential difference
  • electric charge
  • electric current
  • resistance
  • capacitance
  • inductance
  • magnetic flux
  • amount of substance
  • radioactivity
  • ...
[-] Throwdownyourgrandma@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Is adapting a standard instead of making your own something negative?

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's not compatible with their other units. E.g. 1 tesla = 1 Ns/Cm, but imperial uses poundfeet instead of newtons and feet instead of meters. Dimensional analysis with incompatible units is folly.

[-] rustydomino@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Or analytical geometry, for that matter.

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