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Why still using the imperial system? (abananaforscale.com)
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[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There are 8000 linguistic systems in use today, about 90 calendars, a few hundred legal systems, a few hundred monetary systems, but Redditors fume at the thought that Planet Earth uses >1 convention for weights and distances

this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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