The Roman foot was between approximately 0.96 and 0.99 British imperial/US customary feet. The modern foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 meters, by international agreement.
The really neat thing about those changes to the meter is that it didn’t really change how long a meter was (-ish), it changed the precision of that definition, as well as the ability to reproduce an exact meter, reducing the need for a specific piece of material to define the meter (which changes length based on environment). Now, an exact standard meter can be reproduced independently in any lab with the proper equipment.
Well we already deal with a mixed system, so they could relabel where possible and just phase out any machines where not, and in the interim just hand out slide rules with conversions on them.
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Replacing all your tools and machines is super easy, though. /s
FWIW I only work in metric, SAE is utter trash, tbh.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Why don’t you want to measure things by parts of a twelfth of a Roman foot?
sparkle@lemm.ee 2 years ago
of an approximation of a Roman foot in metric*
The Roman foot was between approximately 0.96 and 0.99 British imperial/US customary feet. The modern foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 meters, by international agreement.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The really neat thing about those changes to the meter is that it didn’t really change how long a meter was (-ish), it changed the precision of that definition, as well as the ability to reproduce an exact meter, reducing the need for a specific piece of material to define the meter (which changes length based on environment). Now, an exact standard meter can be reproduced independently in any lab with the proper equipment.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Well we already deal with a mixed system, so they could relabel where possible and just phase out any machines where not, and in the interim just hand out slide rules with conversions on them.