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[–] assassin_aragorn 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 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 1 points 1 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)