• ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Don’t be silly, mooches and trusses are obviously imperial measurements. You can tell because there’s several of them to measure the exact same thing, and with no obvious relationship between them.

      Case in point, imperial length: 12 inches make a foot, 3 feet make a yard, and 1760 yards make a mile.

      Metric length: 1000 millimetres make a meter, 1000 meters make a kilometer. Wild huh?

      To be fair, minutes, hours and days have received the “Works with SI” stamp, but they’re not official measures. The metric unit for time is the second, with the rest being defined as multiples of that (a day being 86400 sec, etc.)