PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThis is outrageous! It's unfair!lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square59fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoThe US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoTechnically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
minus-squareabbotsbury@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoI don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.
minus-squareJeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 days agoThe US measures are based on an older Imperial system that Britain changed. There were different measures in different parts of the UK.
The US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.
Technically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names
I don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.
The US measures are based on an older Imperial system that Britain changed. There were different measures in different parts of the UK.