@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1396cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1396imageThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square60fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•3 months agoThe US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agoTechnically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoI don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoThat’s a new meter tho, slightly different in length from the old one
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•3 months 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.