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metric rule (lemmy.ml)
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[-] theotherone@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago
[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

What have we done to deserve this?

[-] Turun@feddit.de 29 points 11 months ago

Nothing, you don't need to do anything particularly good to deserve the metric system. It is given free of charge to all people!

[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But I love having to add fractions with different denominators and getting it wrong!

[-] Andonno@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That's okay, youl still have time for that.

[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

It is given free of charge to all people!

As a French dude knowing about another small petty French dude named Napoleon, I wouldn't say it was always given free of charge.

[-] Turun@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago

Metric system (cavalry charge included)

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Kept breaking things by using us customary for the most part

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I'm just wondering what we did to deserve the inch becoming 25.4mm instead of just 25 XD

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

5cm ≈ 2 inches up to about a foot.

[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 11 months ago

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