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Comment on London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls on Labour Party to reverse Brexit and rejoin EU at next election

No, please for metrification on us. Imperial wastes so much brain. As computers rarely have a way of entering fractions, you end up with decimals of an inch, or miles, etc. Stupid stupid system. Start with putting all distances and speed in both units, wait 30 years, and remove the imperial. It is aging out anyway, slowly. Fahrenheit is almost gone at least.

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RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I just realised, the computer part is ironic since traditional fractions are a binary series. In binary 0.1 is 1/2, 0.01 is 1/4, 0.001 is 1/8, etc.

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- jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Don’t know when it stops doubling and switch to thousandths. I mean it’s not like imperial worries about sticking to any bases anywhere else.
  
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RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

you end up with decimals of an inch

tbf engineers were using decimal inches (as thou or mil) basically forever.

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- jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.
  
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