PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1590arrow-down121
arrow-up1569arrow-down1imageThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square65fedilink
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·9 days agoThe US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 days agoTechnically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
minus-squareabbotsbury@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 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-up1·1 day agoThat’s a new meter tho, slightly different in length from the old one
minus-squareJeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 days agoThe US measures are based on an older Imperial system that Britain changed. There were different measures in different parts of the UK.
The US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
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
The US measures are based on an older Imperial system that Britain changed. There were different measures in different parts of the UK.