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Why still using the imperial system? (abananaforscale.com)
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[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Cooking too. Try baking a cake in the two.

Pounds-and-ounces is all like "two eights is sixteen", "three threes is nine". Nice and handy multiples is what it's made on.

I'm about equally familiar with the two.