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This came up in a r/AskEurope thread and at least some slavic countries use decimeters. But that's the beauty about easily convertable units. Even if other peo
by bhaak 6y ago
This came up in a r/AskEurope thread and at least some slavic countries use decimeters.
But that's the beauty about easily convertable units. Even if other people use other conventions, the mental process to convert them is almost zero.
Just imagine somebody giving their height just in inches instead of the usual feet and inches?
Could you mentally parse what 76 inches are?
I guess you have basically no problem with 193cm, 1.93m , or "one ninety-three", or even 19.3dm.
- systemvoltage 6y agoAgreed, and needless to say, I use metric system at work (engineering). Now only if we evolved to have 12 fingers, we would have a supercharged metric system in duodecimal (base 12). Far superior to the decimal number system we use today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
- bhaak 6y agoWell, one of the oldest known systems was already very good. Alas, the Babylonian numeral system didn't completely make it down to us unfortunately.
- rswail 6y agoEnglish/Australian people used to (still do?) measure their weight in stones and pounds. The average man was "13 stone" which is 182 pounds. US people measure their weight in pounds, 182lb So yes, a USian telling their weight to a UKian would be like saying their height in inches.
- EdwardDiego 6y agoKiwi here, we generally only use pounds for the weight of a newborn, unsure why. We also tend to still refer to height informally in feet and inches. That's about our only remaining usage of imperial units apart from inches in penis size. We refer to a serving of beer between 425mL to 468mL as a pint, but it's only a descriptive term and not a legal measure.