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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The good thing with metric though is it's easier to visualise other measurements once you know one of them, cause you just know that each other measurement is just a multiple or division of the one you know. Like if you know roughly how long a centimetre is then you can take a good estimate of how long a meter is knowing that it's 100cm

[–] wsweg@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I mean, yeah, I’m not arguing that imperial is a better system. Metric is superior, absolutely. I’m just arguing against the statement that there’s no reason to use it.

[–] wsweg@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did you grow up using metric?

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

It was much more mixed when i was in primary school but by the time I left secondary school it was fully metric. It might've fully changed before I noticed though just cause I was little and parents and grandparents would still be using imperial. I do remember having to learn imperial in school though.