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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by deelowe on Friday November 16, 2018 @07:44PM (#18473159)
Go walk a job site with a tradesman and youll see why imperial is so useful and natural to them. They walk off long distancrs, use knuckles for small ones and do complex division with ease.
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by philistine on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:31PM (#18473764)
Because they have to since they're stuck using imperial. The imperial system does not make people better, it forces people to use fractions.
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by atoav on Saturday November 17, 2018 @04:02AM (#18474692)
My father lays tiles for a living and he always did the same in metric, if he didn’t had something to measure things with him (which any professional should!)

A meter is basically a slightly longer step. I think most tradesmen over here got a pretty good sense how to walk a meter.

0.1m or 1dm or 10cm or 100mm is basically the width of your hand.

1cm or 10mm is roundabout the width of the pinky finger

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