OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 days agoYou've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boyslemmy.worldimagemessage-square189fedilinkarrow-up1148
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minus-squareBilb!@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoI only use metric when it’s in forms nobody else uses or recognizes at a glance because I need to be difficult. Decimeter is perfect for like, height of a person, for example. Why do they use CM?
minus-squareMy Rum is Vodka!@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 days ago Why do they use CM? Precision. “17dm” can be anything between 16.5dm or 17.5dm. You could of course say “I’m 17.5dm tall”, but at this point “I’m 175cm tall” is shorter (no dot). That said I’ve seen plenty people measuring height in metres and then centimetres. Usually something like “I’m one [metre] and 75 [centimetres] tall”.
minus-square☭SaltyIcetea☭ @lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agodecimeters is perfectly fine. basically all volume calculations boil down to dm³ as 1 dm³ = 1L
I only use metric when it’s in forms nobody else uses or recognizes at a glance because I need to be difficult. Decimeter is perfect for like, height of a person, for example. Why do they use CM?
Precision. “17dm” can be anything between 16.5dm or 17.5dm.
You could of course say “I’m 17.5dm tall”, but at this point “I’m 175cm tall” is shorter (no dot).
That said I’ve seen plenty people measuring height in metres and then centimetres. Usually something like “I’m one [metre] and 75 [centimetres] tall”.
decimeters is perfectly fine. basically all volume calculations boil down to dm³ as 1 dm³ = 1L