Rims are also commonly referred to in inches, at least in germany. But just as with screen sizes, it’s 50/50 with cm, the latter being more useful especially with screens.
Comment on everything actually important is already metric
Obi@sopuli.xyz 10 months agoYeah TVs/screens for example are typically in inches anywhere I’ve seen. There might also be the metric listed.
30p87@feddit.de 10 months ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The wheel is in inches but the tires are in metric!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
At least in the United States, tire sizes are a goofy mixture of the two, plus an indirect measurement.
A 205/75R15 tire is 205mm wide bead to bead, fits a 15 inch diameter rim, and is 153.75mm from bead to tread (75% of its width).
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yes, the measurement system is the same everywhere and you need the wheel size somewhere in there, but the size of the tire (if you were to take a slice of its profile) is in metric.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It makes sense as an Inch is a good measurement for that. You aren’t going to use mm or meters
yopla@jlai.lu 10 months ago
[deleted]captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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Aux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TV sizes in Europe are in cm.
accideath@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They are indeed usually in inches but that’s probably bleeding back to Europe from the US. And most people don’t actually know how much that would be in metric. It’s sometimes listed but no one I know actually uses those numbers. We just know that 65 is bigger than 55, etc. If we want to know if it fits in our living rooms, then we look at the actual size in cm. I also couldn’t think of anything else that’s imperial, at least here in Germany.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a diagonal measurement so it’s literally only useful for comparing screens.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
As long as they’re the same ratio 🤪
accideath@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yep. Which is probably why no one bothered to use metric.