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Re:Potato paradox by alkonaut on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:20PM (#17753734)
This is solved when the US goes metric (which is right after the UK goes right hand traffic).
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Re:Potato paradox by zeristor on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:29PM (#17753772)
The UK isn’t exactly metric. Perhaps imperial measurements like Brexit will die out. So many measurements are daft units: road distances, trousers, the nutty papers still use Fahrenheit. Dry goods are in 450g units, and milk is sold by pint in ml.
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Re:Potato paradox by alkonaut on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:38PM (#17753828)
No one is truly metric. Even australia, the only country I know that does cm for screen sizes, still uses inches for car wheels just like everyone else.
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