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There's give and take. A unit based on 1/12th makes one third, one half, and one quarter all even divisions. It's just not that big a deal in my experience.
by rootusrootus 3y ago
There's give and take. A unit based on 1/12th makes one third, one half, and one quarter all even divisions.
It's just not that big a deal in my experience. And if I want to use millimeters, every ruler and tape measure has those too. For all the bitching about the US not using metric, we in fact use it for many things. But it's customary to use imperial for discussion, and I don't get why that hurts people's feelings. I don't care about the UK weighing people in stones...
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThis was one consequence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
- tomjakubowski 3y agoYeah, ability to employ both systems and translate between them is quite useful. It might be similar to native bilingualism. Even outside of the legacy imperial unit systems, there will always be units not nicely expressed in metric units that are handy nevertheless and good to know and use. Like electron-volts.