Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My only gripe with metric is the gap in units between Centimeters and Meters. A foot is convenient size for most things.

Doesn’t seem to be an issue though, the decimetre is rarely used. Sometimes you find dL, decilitre, for 100 ml. It seems that 1, 100, and 1000 are convenient enough for most things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, if you've got a measurement like 54 cm and you'd like that in decimeters for estimating how big it is, you literally just have to move the decimal point: 5.4 dm

You don't have to actively convert it to dm for that. You just see a number of cm and will immediately know how much it would be in steps of 10 cm...