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Now you understand my pain

I guess it's easier to spot by eye and is supposed to use less decimals.

We were tested on French numbers all the firetrucking time

you nerds and your math

This isn't even math man

It's basic decency

5,280 ft makes a mile

But for converting in between, there are different amounts as opposed to meters.

There's a system in place but some of these countries are like "that's easy man, but firetruck them. LET'S MAKE OUR OWN SHIT"

So it causes chaos

whenever someone mention a number or whatever thats still mathhhhh to me ?

Inches and feet at least make sense in measuring people and materials. Yards for measuring something always seems strange.

99 in French: 4x20+10+9

Quatre vingt dix neuf

Actually... There is a number system worse than French but aughgjhh I don't wanna say it

I seriously don't see how inches and feet make sense for measuring people. It barely makes sense as a system. At least with the metric system you go by 10 to 100 to 1000 to 10000 and so on

It's a medieval measuring system

The metric system is a very modern invention

A modern system that clearly works better in every way

Oh yeah ofc

But people have been using inches for literally 100s of years so it's not gonna go anywhere anytime soon

Also, really? Metric is newer than imperial system?

I think it was literally based around feet and hand sizes

Adding foot benchmarks for height by times tables

Yeah, metric is very very new

Huh