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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It would very much be worth it. Imperial invites mistakes by using weird conversions and factional sizes. I often have to stop and think which factions of an inch are bigger or smaller than each other. When Australia switched from imperial to metric, it's estimated they save about 10% annually from having a lower error rate. Fewer things need to get fixed or replaced from measurement mistakes.

A kitchen-scale example: I once mixed up tablespoons and teaspoons when adding baking soda to my pancake mix. They turned out disgusting and we had to re-make breakfast because version 1 was inedible. Such mistakes are less likely to happen under metric.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Eeeh... We have tablespoon (15ml) and teaspoon (5ml) here too....