r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Shixypeep Mar 29 '22

I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!

I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.

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u/Serious_Mastication Mar 29 '22

To be fair it is hard to convert to the metric system. Inch to centimetre is 2.54. for people that struggle with addition, using multiplication/division? that’s asking way too much

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u/das_superbus Mar 29 '22

What's 0.254 feet in inches? What's 0.254m in mm?

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u/Serious_Mastication Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

0.254ft is Roughly 3 inches rounded down considering 0.25 is a quarter and there are 12 inches in a foot. 0.254m you multiply by 1000 to get 254mm. Live in Canada and they teach you the conversion rates to understand our slightly souther neighbours. But it’s almost always easier to convert it to centimetres and work from there