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sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

with metric you don’t have „larger or smaller units“. You have one unit and you scale it to your needs.

That’s the same thing, the units are just proportional.

It’s not like we have „the meter“ and „the centimeter“ and have no clue what’s in between.

I know, its just easier to say a foot than 30 centimeters. That’s why I use it in casual conversation, and not in anything important.

There’s absolutely nothing more convenient about having multiple units for the same physical property.

That’s not the part I’m saying is convenient.

Again: There’s nothing more or less precise about metric or imperial.

They can both be used to measure things precisely, but metric is more convenient in those situations usually. If I need to accurately measure something, I would use metric because the advantages of imperial are probably not applicable. If I’m just estimating and it doesn’t matter much, I’ll probably use imperial because I won’t have to do any conversions with that number, or anything else imperial struggles with.

Oh, I definitely had other people tell me imperial is „more human“ because a foot is the size of your foot and an inch is the size of the tip of your thumb.

Those people are wrong.

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