Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better

• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Funny thing is here in the Netherlands some people use pounds and ounces ( pond and ons in Dutch ) when they buy meat at the butcher. 1 pond = 500 gram, 1 ons = 100 gram

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • 1 yard = 1 m (=3ft+1hd)

  Oh yeah, that’ll be fine, I’m sure it will make everything simpler:

  1km = 1000yd + 1000hd = 1111yd + 1hd

  What could possibly go wrong.

  1 slug = … ?

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  • wieson@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I redefined 1yd as 1m so 1km = 1000yd = 1kyd

    1000 yd = 3000ft + 1000hd = 3333ft + 1hd

    I think the inch-feet conversion is used more often than the feet-yard conversion, so I kept the 12:1 and broke the 3:1

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