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Imperial Wastes So Much Time (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Woosh. Yeah, it keeps feeling counterintuïtive to go from mili to centi

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just move the decimal place, how hard is that?

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know.. But from square to cubic

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How a 1x1x1cm cube = 1ml of h2o?

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah. I'm over 40 years into the metric system and I keep making this mistake intuitively. I don't make it when doing calculations bit just when quick guessing.