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Well I also don't particularly care about how many feet are in a kilometer, since they are different units. A mile is...a mile. A half a mile, a quarter of a
by blhack 8y ago
Well I also don't particularly care about how many feet are in a kilometer, since they are different units.
A mile is...a mile. A half a mile, a quarter of a mile, an eighth of a mile, etc. Yeah, there are 5280 feet in a mile. There are also 25.8 or something like that mm in a inch, some other arbitrary unit of conversion that we all have to memorize.
- terragon 8y agoYour second example is disingenuous. Mm to inch is going to be a weird conversion because they are between different unit systems. Feet to miles is unacceptable considering they're both imperial units.
- atoav 8y agoThese differences get important if you do any type calculation in engineering or physics. Then it suddenly starts to matter if the result is Nm, Nmn or a Newton times a inch Example: a Volt – which also the US uses with its metric prefixes – is defined as a Joule or a Wattsecond or a Newtonmeter.