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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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It was actually pretty great when I worked for a company making things here in england:
"That needs to move 50cm" meant it had to move exactly 500mm
"That needs to move a foot" meant just kick it over about a foot
It was just an unspoken thing that metric meant precise and imperial was just caveman measuring
For some reason I too, subconsciously comprehend it that way.
Never worked in Civil or Mech