PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1592arrow-down121
arrow-up1571arrow-down1external-linkThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 months agoThe US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoTechnically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
minus-squareabbotsbury@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoThat’s a new meter tho, slightly different in length from the old one
The US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
Technically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
I don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.
That’s a new meter tho, slightly different in length from the old one
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