@patpro@JohanEmpa Inches I can deal with - it’s all the other nonsense that gets me. Fahrenheit makes no sense. And cups in the kitchen. All the cups in my cupboard are different sizes.
@JohanEmpa Yessss. Apps react differently - some recognise your Norwegian language keyboard and expect you to type commas instead of decimals and some don’t and default to decimals. It’s a right old mess.
@JohanEmpa One reason might be the US had only one inch to deal with. In Europe, with one inch in each country more or less, the industry was craving standardized measurements. Not so on the US. Today of course, it has become an obstacle.
@sciencebase Annoyingly I own a "yardstick" and in addition to cm it has inches. The bloody thing is called "inch-stick", but translated into Swedish words. I just checked and yes it's 1/16th inch.
There are efforts to rename it into measuring-stick, but progress is slow.
2.5 cm per inch looks wrong at 8 inch and outright British ("mind the gap") at 20 inch. It must be 2,54 to line up 😄
@JohanEmpa wait until you hear that NASA strictly uses metric since they accidentally blew up a satellite or something because one employee used imperial.
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