• nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I remember learning all metric in elementary school in the early to mid 80s much to my mother’s chagrin (any thing I learned that was different than what/how she learned in Catholic school was bad, including a second language). Then having to relearn standard in middle school. I still have to count all of the lines on a tape measure.

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      2 months ago

      As a metric-raised guy I find extremely difficult following the tutorials of woodworkers that start putting 2feet 3 inches and 9/16 in the measurements that converts to 700,0875mm wich i guess is an approximation of 70cms

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        2 months ago

        Things like woodworking are exactly where the imperial system came from. Because daily usable lengths like a foot are using base 12 not base 10, it can be divided much more evenly even before needing fractions.

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      2 months ago

      I was taught the metric system in US Schools in the late 80s and 90s.

      Sure we don’t use it daily but I still know it.

      I know that I need to convert to it and how to convert to it if necessary.

      For anything that’s not interacting with a human I’d use the metric system, for anything interacting with a human I’d display both.