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The whole world uses both for various things. Even the countries that "officially" use metric. Specific global industries still use imperial. Canadian and British people are perhaps the most famous for combining the two, but most of Europe also mixes things in here and there.
And of course the whole conversation is Euro-centric and ignores the historical use of traditional measurement systems in Africa and Asia, but somehow that never gets brought up.
Yeah TVs/screens for example are typically in inches anywhere I've seen. There might also be the metric listed.
They are indeed usually in inches but that’s probably bleeding back to Europe from the US. And most people don’t actually know how much that would be in metric. It’s sometimes listed but no one I know actually uses those numbers. We just know that 65 is bigger than 55, etc. If we want to know if it fits in our living rooms, then we look at the actual size in cm. I also couldn’t think of anything else that’s imperial, at least here in Germany.
It's a diagonal measurement so it's literally only useful for comparing screens.
As long as they're the same ratio 🤪
Yep. Which is probably why no one bothered to use metric.
It makes sense as an Inch is a good measurement for that. You aren't going to use mm or meters
That's why they have centimeters (cm). When I buy a TV in Europe the diagonal size is expressed in cm.
People here have a better feeling of what 138cm is than they do for 55' because they are just more used to it.
Neither is a better measurement, it's just a matter of what you're accustomed to. If you were used to banana scale you'd think 8b is easier to understand than 55'.
' is feet, " is inches.
Yeah, I get them mixed up all the time. I don't use them.
TV sizes in Europe are in cm.
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