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minus-squareImplyingImplications@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up108arrow-down2·1 year agoAmericans will use anything but metric
minus-squareGrammaton Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up66·1 year agoI wouldn’t touch the metric system with a 10-foof pole.
minus-squareBrownian Motion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoThe correct answer is 2.58 metres.
minus-squareRukmer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThat made me laugh so hard I woke up my cats.
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minus-squareeestileib@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoWe use decimal inches in machine shops, that’s a metric system. SI though, that’s what gets people mad.
minus-squaredatelmd5sum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year agoExcept 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 …
minus-squareThrowdownyourgrandma@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIs adapting a standard instead of making your own something negative?
minus-squaredatelmd5sum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIt’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.
minus-squarerustydomino@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoOr analytical geometry, for that matter.
Americans will use anything but metric
I wouldn’t touch the metric system with a 10-foof pole.
The correct answer is 2.58 metres.
That made me laugh so hard I woke up my cats.
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We use decimal inches in machine shops, that’s a metric system.
SI though, that’s what gets people mad.
Except for some reason you didn’t come up with your own units for:
Is adapting a standard instead of making your own something negative?
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.
Or analytical geometry, for that matter.