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My fellow 'Muricans, do you prefer metric or standard measurements? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I tend to use metric when I'm designing 3D models.

In woodworking and other linear measurements, I use imperial units.

Celsius for my 3D printer, but Fahrenheit for weather.

Driving is miles.

In cooking I use imperial units.

Metric for Physics.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    When I see imperial units in high school physics I wonder what is the point. We typically use SI units so that constants are the same across the board. I can't imagine c being anything else other than 3e8 m/s.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I remember my sophomore thermodynamics class in college always seemed artificially hard because the only really difficult problems were ones where they decided to use fucking BTUs.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Scientists and physicists go in to use metric in work. US Engineers often go on to use imperial. Slugs and kips are units somewhere in there. But the engineers that calculate with gravity tend to be back in metric

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