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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

Now go cut me a board 1/6m without a measuring device. Do it by eye. With a fractional system 1/6 of a foot is far easier to do.

You probably could do it if you grew up measuring things in centimetres and metres, instead of inches, elbows and feet.

In fact I’m often eyeballing ~10cm = 1/10m based on the size of my middle finger, and ~20cm = 1/5m based on the distance between the tips of my thumb and pinkie when my hand is fully spread out.

You’re confusing “it’s more intuitive because I grew up with it” with “it’s intrinsically more intuitive”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

Why do they use CM?

Precision. “17dm” can be anything between 16.5dm or 17.5dm.

You could of course say “I’m 17.5dm tall”, but at this point “I’m 175cm tall” is shorter (no dot).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Except a professor from my grad times. In classroom. His examples were always “consider a sphere with a circumference of 40.0 Mm” and stuff like this.