PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1590arrow-down121cross-posted to: starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
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minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·8 days agoThe US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
minus-squareJeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoThe US measures are based on an older Imperial system that Britain changed. There were different measures in different parts of the UK.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 days agoTechnically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
minus-squareabbotsbury@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoI don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoThat’s a new meter tho, slightly different in length from the old one
The US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
The US measures are based on an older Imperial system that Britain changed. There were different measures in different parts of the UK.
Technically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
I don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.
That’s a new meter tho, slightly different in length from the old one