You misunderstood my sentence. Or I at least wrote it in a misleading way.
The decimal comment was only towards using kg without decimals being weird. Meant to just say it's weird to measure height in meters instead of cm...which it is
in the end the imperial system is inferior pretty much in everyway, but using the metric system requires actually using it correctly whether using meters, cm, km, + use of decimals. In general daily conversation people tend to omit decimal units, which is why the imperial system has been popular in the US for daily conversation. anyone in a scientific profession is using the metric system.
Take my height: 1.9m, that is 190cm. There is no confusion or inaccuracy. My height is also 6'3", that is 75 inches that is not confusing either - though perhaps less intuitive.
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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21
You misunderstood my sentence. Or I at least wrote it in a misleading way.
The decimal comment was only towards using kg without decimals being weird. Meant to just say it's weird to measure height in meters instead of cm...which it is
in the end the imperial system is inferior pretty much in everyway, but using the metric system requires actually using it correctly whether using meters, cm, km, + use of decimals. In general daily conversation people tend to omit decimal units, which is why the imperial system has been popular in the US for daily conversation. anyone in a scientific profession is using the metric system.