Comment on Everyday, as an American
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoI think we were the first with metric money? We still pay for things in centidollars.
Comment on Everyday, as an American
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoI think we were the first with metric money? We still pay for things in centidollars.
Aux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why do Americans call the decimal system “metric”?
dan@upvote.au 10 months ago
They’re different things. The metric system uses decimal. All metric units are decimals, but not all decimals are metric measurements.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because that’s it’s name
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
But if you wanna get all specific about it we can call it SI
…m.wikipedia.org/…/International_System_of_Units
It’s certainly not the Decimal system
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal
Aux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s no such thing as metric money. What are you talking about?
bitwaba@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sorry, I thought you were making a general comment. I didn’t realize you we’re criticizing the “metric money” statement.
But, reading over that person’s comment again they also say “centidollars”, which also doesn’t exist, so I believe they were trying to make the point that the US was the first to make a currency that seems to adhere to the same principles as the metric system since their currently since 1 centidollars = 1 cent = 1 dollar/100.
(I’m pretty sure it was a joke though. We don’t use kilodollars, etc)
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My Megadollar says otherwise.
Verat@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd Non-metric money is referring to systems where the multiple tiers of money, lile our cents and dollars, are seperated by amounts other than 10 or 100, like the old British system of 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound