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metric rule (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What have we done to deserve this?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Metric system (cavalry charge included)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Kept breaking things by using us customary for the most part

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

5cm ≈ 2 inches up to about a foot.