• masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    You know what blew my mind? The UK is on the metric system but uses miles. Not just the way that Canadians use feet and inches for height because of media, like literally their road signs and car speedometers are in miles despite them using km.

    It borderline made me angrier than America. At least America is consistently nonsense everywhere.

    • UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      2 days ago

      Our road signs are only metric (Ontario). Our cars have both km/h and mph, but the metric is larger and more prominent.

      I’ve never seen a Canadian road in miles, and I even live near the border.

  • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
    41·
    2 days ago

    i’m sorry, but systems based on highly composite numbers like 60, 360, 12, 240, 16, etc. are not the result of random incompetence.

    Meanwhile, the metric folks use 600 cm (not 1m) as a foundation because you actually need to divide common lengths by 3 and 4