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[โ€“] ScampiLover@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It was actually pretty great when I worked for a company making things here in england:
"That needs to move 50cm" meant it had to move exactly 500mm
"That needs to move a foot" meant just kick it over about a foot

It was just an unspoken thing that metric meant precise and imperial was just caveman measuring

[โ€“] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 3 months ago

For some reason I too, subconsciously comprehend it that way.
Never worked in Civil or Mech