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This is of course not true. If I go to England I’ll see & hear references to ‘stone’ for weight. Similarly most of the world uses Celsius instead of Kelvin for
by kasey_junk 8y ago
This is of course not true. If I go to England I’ll see & hear references to ‘stone’ for weight.
Similarly most of the world uses Celsius instead of Kelvin for temperature.
In China you’ll see measures denominated in duplicate units at times.
The world over you’ll see variations in what units people use.
- perl4ever 8y agoThe UK also uses mpg, and confusingly enough, the Imperial gallon is significantly larger than the American one.
- sfifs 8y agoAnd in India, we still use a more traditional counting system beyond thousands - we say "lakh" for 100,000 and "crore" for 10,000,000. The words million and billion are not in common use.