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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by blhack on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:04PM (#18473247)
Well I also don't particularly care about how many feet are in a kilometer, since they are different units.

A mile is...a mile. A half a mile, a quarter of a mile, an eighth of a mile, etc. Yeah, there are 5280 feet in a mile. There are also 25.8 or something like that mm in a inch, some other arbitrary unit of conversion that we all have to memorize.

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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by terragon on Friday November 16, 2018 @09:08PM (#18473493)
Your second example is disingenuous. Mm to inch is going to be a weird conversion because they are between different unit systems. Feet to miles is unacceptable considering they're both imperial units.
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Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote by atoav on Saturday November 17, 2018 @04:13AM (#18474716)
These differences get important if you do any type calculation in engineering or physics.

Then it suddenly starts to matter if the result is Nm, Nmn or a Newton times a inch

Example: a Volt – which also the US uses with its metric prefixes – is defined as a Joule or a Wattsecond or a Newtonmeter.

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