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Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 days agoI’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.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 days 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.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 days ago
Definitely. But fortunately, everything here has the dimension length to the power of something.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Like, nautical miles have a good use but that’s not even the miles being used