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Nit: For those saying the US uses Imperial units. It doesn't. The US uses something called US Customary Units: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cu
by wdr1 4y ago
Nit: For those saying the US uses Imperial units. It doesn't.
The US uses something called US Customary Units:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
Both US Customary & Imperial derived from British units but they have always had large differences. There was an effort to reconcile the two but it was an abandoned when Europe decided to adopt the metric system.
Still differences remain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and...