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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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    Americans will use anything but metric

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      I wouldn’t touch the metric system with a 10-foof pole.

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        That made me laugh so hard I woke up my cats.

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        The correct answer is 2.58 metres.

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      deleted by creator

      • 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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      We use decimal inches in machine shops, that’s a metric system.

      SI though, that’s what gets people mad.

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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
        • …
        • Throwdownyourgrandma@feddit.nl
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          Is adapting a standard instead of making your own something negative?

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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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