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Originally Posted by bigd999
ohh and how do you guys deal with not havin a unit of measue between cm and m?? I dont know what I would do without feet!  |
Well, dont forget about the oh-so-popular decimeter!
It might not be quite as mighty as our foot - being that it is only about 4 inches, but it is there nonetheless. And in reality, cm, dm, km are irrelevant anyway - they are all just different ways of writing "meter" with a different base of 10.
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Originally Posted by bigd999
Think about how often you say a "half", "quarter", "third", "two thirds". Mabye thats just cause I use fractions all the time. It would be tough to try to convert though, I can look at something and tell you that its about 15 feet tall, or gauge a mile just by the feel of it. Would take a while to learn to do that in cm, m, km
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Yeah, but it is a lot easier to take 2/3 of 10.55 meters than it is of say 28' 7 7/8". In the metric system,you can do it in your head in most cases, or very easily on a calculator. But in the US system, its a pain in the ass.