Re:The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
by shoxidizer on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:47AM
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> Metric lacks a good "foot", but I guess people would get used to eyeballing things in ~50cm increments instead.
Perhaps as a compromise we could adopt the meter but divide it by halves, quarters, and so on. Binary fractions are so much more universal than arbitrary base ten ;)
Perhaps as a compromise we could adopt the meter but divide it by halves, quarters, and so on. Binary fractions are so much more universal than arbitrary base ten ;)