this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
62 points (81.6% liked)

Memes

45727 readers
1034 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml
sexy_peach@feddit.de
cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
62
Why still using the imperial system? (abananaforscale.com)
submitted 7 months ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
99 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

6096 mm does sound really stupid when you could just say 6.096 m.

[–] MossyHabitat@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All plans use mm exclusively. Airport blueprints, for example, are in mm. At first blush it seems excessive, but it makes sense from a consistency & accuracy POV - 6.096m takes up 2 more characters than 6096 - they don't even need to specify the units "mm", because it is assumed, and anything else introduces room for error.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

"Ok Bob, we're going to build a runway, it needs to be 3,962,000 mm long"