Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys

• night_petal@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The yard is something born of convenience. It isn’t really used seriously outside of American football and spirit levels for some reason. And, you are right - there is no real significance to it. The vast majority of Americans ignore the yard outsideof very fast estimates for good reason, it needs 4 to fit the concept of 12.

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  • wieson@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was not talking about the yard at all. I was talking about 440. Which is a number not wholly divisible by 12.

    Be true. It isn’t a duodecimal system. Sometimes it needs 12 to get to the next highest unit, sometimes 3 or 8 or 16 or 14 or 5280.

    Being entirely duodecimal would be kinda cool in fact. But it’s not applicable and shouldn’t be used as an argument pro US customary system.

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