Post B4aQWtEoiJNcggkm1I by infobeautiful@vis.social
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 (DIR) Post #B4aQWtEoiJNcggkm1I by infobeautiful@vis.social
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       Measurement unit differences between the U.S.A. and most of the world.(creator: unknown)
       
 (DIR) Post #B4aQWtU3ndZbRxswmO by heygarrett@social.lol
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       @infobeautiful I love metrics enough to use KPH as an American driving in the US, but this argument for Fahrenheit is pretty convincing.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4aQWtfP7SeC19C0Se by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @infobeautiful @heygarrett km/h, not kph and especially not KPH (units and præficēs are case-sensitive)(and no, it isn’t, you just use steps of 10 or even 5 for Kelvin/Celsius)
       
 (DIR) Post #B4aRAwreeMnlWB1Lma by heygarrett@social.lol
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       @mirabilos TIL, thanks. Though Wikipedia does list km/h as an SI abbreviation and kph as a non-SI abbreviation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
       
 (DIR) Post #B4aRAx0s66ArylKi9I by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @heygarrett yes, because it is in use in america; doesn’t mean it’s good ;)
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bI9tL3ZJ5rrd9dXU by smeg@assortedflotsam.com
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       @infobeautiful ISO8601 or bust
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bIIM10pi0R7UoXgW by Dawilson999@sfba.social
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       @infobeautiful Everywhere: Day = 24 hours, or 1440 minutes, or 84,600 seconds; Compass = 360 degrees, 21,600 minutes, 1,404,000 seconds
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bIIMKrdtsy746Ocy by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @Dawilson999 @infobeautiful base-60 that makes sense for round things and has been in use since babylonian times, fwiw, but if you hate it, you can use gon
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bSX2Nx69RA7kBUae by Dawilson999@sfba.social
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       @mirabilos Very good point, although I think the unit of measure for time is what really screws up the metric system, or SI as universal standards. Perhaps if there were twenty hours in a day?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bSX2dCBTd8t1JfLk by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @Dawilson999 people tried decimal time before, in various ways. It just doesn’t work, the maths doesn’t work for it.Metric does not mean 100% decadic. The ways time and positions on circles/globes are measured is hexadecadic but still regular, which the imperialistic units are not.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bSkbzc1QGkK5GwYC by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @Dawilson999 that being said, countries that do not use the american imperialistic units generally have higher literacy, so perhaps we see no problem with the hexadecadic system for such cases.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bTQIRd5k31rGFnyC by Dawilson999@sfba.social
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       @mirabilos That sounds like correlation to me. There are plenty of intelligent people still using imperialistic units. That’s what conversion calculators and computers are for.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bTQIekIyXWVwOHPk by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @Dawilson999 uhm… you know, we do it in the head