• @ponfriend
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        111 months ago

        Metric is a product of the French Revolution, as well as decimal currency like cents. Some decimalization from the French Revolution didn’t catch on widely, like gradians for measuring angles or decimal minutes, hours, and weeks. The imperial units were standardized by various monarchies (hence the name).

    • @eestileib
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      611 months ago

      We use decimal inches in machine shops, that’s a metric system.

      SI though, that’s what gets people mad.

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        Except for some reason you didn’t come up with your own units for:

        • electric potential difference
        • electric charge
        • electric current
        • resistance
        • capacitance
        • inductance
        • magnetic flux
        • amount of substance
        • radioactivity
          • @[email protected]
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            211 months ago

            It’s not compatible with their other units. E.g. 1 tesla = 1 Ns/Cm, but imperial uses poundfeet instead of newtons and feet instead of meters. Dimensional analysis with incompatible units is folly.