• @assassin_aragorn
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    11 year ago

    Are you saying that only the US really constantly has to do conversions between both systems? Are you saying that Americans are always doing a bunch of math that the rest of you aren’t?

    • Norgur
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      31 year ago

      I regret to inform you that… Yes, you are doing some math other’s don’t. Except for the British, those people are beyond savior with their obnoxious mix of weird unit collections.

    • @22decembre
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      11 year ago

      Yes, only places where it is mixed is the anglosaxony… try to open to the world.

      I use pounds because I do archery, where my bow’s power is measured with that unit, which I translate as 1/2 a kg. I don’t care that it’s inaccurate.

      There are also inches (I think) for Tv and computer screens, which is shitty.

      But no one else uses imperial.

      I worked with croncrete blocks (prefabricated building elements) some years ago and I was all the time making fast calculations of sizes and weight and I cannot imagine making that in imperial (admittedly because I am not used, but in present case it would just have been massively impractical)