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It is interesting to me how many engineers hop from English ("3 inches to go on the rubber band") to the metric system ("400 meters per second"). Andy Weir touc
by beckerdo 5y ago
It is interesting to me how many engineers hop from English ("3 inches to go on the rubber band") to the metric system ("400 meters per second"). Andy Weir touches on this in his book "Hail Mary".
- durnygbur 5y agoStill missing the "football fields" unit of measurement.
- mlindner 5y agoExcept this person isn't American, as he lives on Manitoulin Island, which is in Canada.
- elliottkember 5y agoI am from NZ and find myself doing this. The difference is whether something is estimated or measured. If it’s a rough estimate, and the value doesn’t matter at all, I use inches. So “six inches” is more of a way of describing “about this much”. It’s deliberately imprecise.