Hi, I think in metric units, so almost everything is some form of a power of 10, like a kilogram is a 1000 grams, etc.

Sometimes I will think of an hour and half as 150 minutes before remembering that it is 90 minutes.

Does something similar happen to imperial units users? Because as far as I understand you don’t have obvious patterns that would cause you to make these mistakes, right?

  • Curious Canid@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m with you on going metric. It’s insane that we still use imperial units.

    Congress passed a bill in 1975 that was supposed to transition us to metric, but it obviously didn’t take.

    I end up using metric units quite regularly for various reasons. My intuitive understanding of imperial units is still better, which irritates me.