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What's weirder is that the bottom two are 6 feef apart
139 0 ReplyAmericans will use anything but metric
134 2 ReplyI wouldn't touch the metric system with a 10-foof pole.
77 0 ReplyThe correct answer is 2.58 metres.
7 0 ReplyThat made me laugh so hard I woke up my cats.
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We use decimal inches in machine shops, that's a metric system.
SI though, that's what gets people mad.
5 0 ReplyExcept for some reason you didn't come up with your own units for:
- electric potential difference
- electric charge
- electric current
- resistance
- capacitance
- inductance
- magnetic flux
- amount of substance
- radioactivity
- ...
9 2 ReplyIs adapting a standard instead of making your own something negative?
2 0 ReplyIt's not compatible with their other units. E.g. 1 tesla = 1 Ns/Cm, but imperial uses poundfeet instead of newtons and feet instead of meters. Dimensional analysis with incompatible units is folly.
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Or analytical geometry, for that matter.
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This actually makes the problem solvable
edit: in 2-D. Even without the typo it was solvable in 3-D.
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