• ponfriend@sh.itjust.works
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          Metric is a product of the French Revolution, as well as decimal currency like cents. Some decimalization from the French Revolution didn’t catch on widely, like gradians for measuring angles or decimal minutes, hours, and weeks. The imperial units were standardized by various monarchies (hence the name).

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          Except for some reason you didn’t come up with your own units for:

          • electric potential difference
          • electric charge
          • electric current
          • resistance
          • capacitance
          • inductance
          • magnetic flux
          • amount of substance
          • radioactivity
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              It’s not compatible with their other units. E.g. 1 tesla = 1 Ns/Cm, but imperial uses poundfeet instead of newtons and feet instead of meters. Dimensional analysis with incompatible units is folly.

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        Or analytical geometry, for that matter.

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      This actually makes the problem solvable

      edit: in 2-D. Even without the typo it was solvable in 3-D.