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[-] [email protected] 140 points 2 years ago

What's weirder is that the bottom two are 6 feef apart

[-] [email protected] 132 points 2 years ago

Americans will use anything but metric

[-] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't touch the metric system with a 10-foof pole.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

The correct answer is 2.58 metres.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

That made me laugh so hard I woke up my cats.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

We use decimal inches in machine shops, that's a metric system.

SI though, that's what gets people mad.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Except for some reason you didn't come up with your own units for:

  • electric potential difference
  • electric charge
  • electric current
  • resistance
  • capacitance
  • inductance
  • magnetic flux
  • amount of substance
  • radioactivity
  • ...
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Is adapting a standard instead of making your own something negative?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's not compatible with their other units. E.g. 1 tesla = 1 Ns/Cm, but imperial uses poundfeet instead of newtons and feet instead of meters. Dimensional analysis with incompatible units is folly.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Or analytical geometry, for that matter.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This actually makes the problem solvable

edit: in 2-D. Even without the typo it was solvable in 3-D.

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