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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

yeah idk, i guess it's just weird to me, because here in the us if you measured someones height in inches alone, you would be chased out of a room. We strictly use feet and inches, and then yards if referring to a more "broad" range. So you can very safely assume something is in feet and inches if its just two numbers stuck together.

I feel like i could very easily get confused with metric if i'm not running a consistent rule for default units. Seems like an easy way to get a random x10 error in there to me.

[-] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

As you pointed out previously, nobody uses decimeters, so x10 errors are not that common.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i'm just gonna say that the joke here is that it was a 10x error. But that's retroactive, so.

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