Dragonfire ([info]magedragonfire) wrote,
@ 2008-11-07 01:40:00
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So Obama's all about the change, huh?

Maybe this means you guys'll finally get the metric system after all these years. ("UNITS OF TEN? THIS CANNOT BE.")

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Re: Actually...
[info]magedragonfire
2008-11-07 02:33 am UTC (link)
All of my math and science homework was in metric, and usually everything else is too. The only places where we still use it a lot is talking about height or weight - or the old people who can't grasp the metric system still (like my mom).

The big thing, though, is temperature. Fahrenheit makes no sense.

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Re: Actually...
[info]magedragonfire
2008-11-07 02:35 am UTC (link)
A good example of 'everything else' is actually in volume measurements - all the packages in grocery stores go by grams, liquid by litres/millilitres, etc. Gas is sold by the litre, too. It's just height and weight, for the most part, that're off (and baking, too; most people still use imperial measurement for that, but only because the conversion between metric and imperial measurements royally fucks over baked goods, and most recipes are written in imperial).

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