Yeah, imperial is... confusing... like you have inches, but then you don't get decainches, you get feet 😒. And then you don't have kiloinches, you have miles 🤦.

[–] NightAuthor 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What drives me nuts is that everyone likes to pretend America came up with this shit. But it was Britain, they just decided to abandon it for a new standard and were were too busy building a damn country and hating Britain to just adopt a new measurement system.

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, ok, you're right, I won't tease you guys any more about this 😂.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

they at least saw the dogshit and put then away

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1 foot = 1.2 decainches
1 yard = 3.6 decainches
1 mile = 5.28 kiloinches
1 mile = 1.76 kiloyards

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

WTF, I though they were related in 10s, that's not even true 🤦.

EDIT: Shit, now I got it, they're related in 12s, like in dousens... why, WHY!

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

a better way to count

[–] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not like base ten is some magic thing that’s better in all aspects. I’ll admit that imperial is inconsistent sure, but a dozenal system makes sense when you need to divide things a lot. One foot being twelve inches means you can half, quarter, third, or sixth it without dealing with fractions

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have to agree though that this is true. Still, it makes it more difficult if you have to work with 10s, like take a 10th of the measurement.