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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Imperial units are fine. They have rational conversion ratios between them and standard metric. I was in bed at the time and miles is what I got from search results.

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  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, they’re great for people chatting casually in the US, Myanmar and Liberia but they add unnecessary complexity with scientific or engineering applications

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OK

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      • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You did well in your answer by the way. I didn’t downvote. My comments are directed at everyone downvoting the person calling out imperial units

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• Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m fine with imperial units, as long as somebody stays in one unit system and doesn’t mix miles, yards, feet and inches, or square miles and acres, etc.

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  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m fluent in what you listed too… but everything you listed is just meters in metric so that’s five-ish conversions to needlessly need to know. And if you start using equations in then standard units play up a lot like when diving with imperial units you measure depth in feet but pressure in pounds per square inch so you have an awkward feet to inch right there and the equations are just more complicated. Anything beside the simple gets compounding unit conversions. And the countries left in the world that only use imperial are the US, Myanmar and Liberia.

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    • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Definitely. But fortunately, everything here has the dimension length to the power of something.

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    • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like, nautical miles have a good use but that’s not even the miles being used

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