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And yet, metric system is not 100% used even in metric countries. TVs, monitors, speaker sizes, car rims and tyres, plumbing pipes, guitar scale length, etc are
by grujicd 4y ago
And yet, metric system is not 100% used even in metric countries. TVs, monitors, speaker sizes, car rims and tyres, plumbing pipes, guitar scale length, etc are stuck in inches and used like that in the whole world.
If 24" monitor sounds ok and you have no idea how big 61cm display is then it's safe to say we're also creatures of habbit and it's nothing specific to US.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI acknowledged that the conversion wasn't complete, but it has gone much much further than the United States nearly everywhere else in the world, so there's something specific about the United States that's preventing it from making even progressing.