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I wish the metric system didn't have shortcomings in the medium units, though. There's no (commonly used) parallel to feet in metric. Centimeters are too small
by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I wish the metric system didn't have shortcomings in the medium units, though. There's no (commonly used) parallel to feet in metric. Centimeters are too small for the kind of estimations feet are useful for. That's really the only imperial unit I care about.
- Symbiote 7y agoYou can use decimetres if you wish (0.1m or 10cm, so about ⅓ foot). In practise this isn't really a shortcoming, so hardly anyone does use them. About the only place I see decimetre markings is depth gauges on rivers/canals/bridges, and rulers used by geologists when photographing a rock formation.
- microtherion 7y agoThere are decimeters. Not super commonly used, but due to the decimal nature of the system nobody has much difficulty understanding them.
- henrikschroder 7y agoYou're thinking about it wrong. 2 feet is about 600mm or 60 cm or 6 decimeters or 0.6m or 0.06 dekameters. Just pick whatever prefix that gives you the number of significant digits you want. Metric doesn't "lack units", because there's only a single unit for every measure. Instead there's prefixes for every power of ten around human-scale measurements, and for every power of thousand for much smaller and much larger measurements.