• Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    That is someone applying imperial system logic to the metric system. No one in their right mind uses fractions to describe 15cm.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah - really confusing. I worked it out as (c.) 6 inches and then further confused myself as to why I was thinking inches from metres. Wild. Luckily I’ve lived with both metric and imperial and am apparently bilingual.

    • im sorry i broke the code
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      3 months ago

      Henceforth we shall have the imperial metric system, where everything is based on the metric system but is presented as if it were imperial’s