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[-] Chuckle_Puck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I get your point but as an American I've never heard of converting feet to chains or furlongs? Lol sounds like pirate measurements to me

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I agree that they probably don't see much use but they're there, along with some other pretty impressive units.

[-] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

That’s not what they’re saying.

They’re saying that the only way you can keep neat and easy conversions between same-dimension units is by maintaining a lot of those deprecated units such as furlongs or chains, because by removing them, now you end up with complete nonsense conversions.

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