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[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass 45 points 2 years ago (32 children)

I'll just leave this here: https://youtu.be/iJymKowx8cY

TLDW: metric is better because all the different kinds of units were designed to work together.

Where as imperial units developed organically, within specific trades/use cases. They're not all supposed to work together.

I use imperial because that's what I was raised with, but I recognize metric is better in many ways. My only gripe with metric is the gap in units between Centimeters and Meters. A foot is convenient size for most things.

[–] Eonandahalf 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

It’s a decimal system, so t’s “all in 10th” deci=1/10. Meter > decimetre (dm) > centimetre (cm). So I think what you’re looking for is decimetre (dm) = tenth of a meter 😊

And centi denoting a factor of one hundredth and so on 🙃

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Deci is actually 1/10. Deca is 10

[–] Eonandahalf 0 points 2 years ago

Yup thnaks, was a typo 😊

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