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Today I learned that Americans use British Units, and the British' use metric unit??Astronuc said:When I studied physics, we did our work in MKS and cgs. When I did nuclear engineering, it was mostly British units with some SI.
That was what was confusing me all this time. I heard that Americans use different units than British.
American use miles, inch, pound.
But what about the British? Surely British would use something else than miles and pound.
But miles and pound are British units.
Argghhh...
@Ibix is right! But now I truly understand.Ibix said:That's nuts...![]()
It's no wonder that a-200 millions dollars NASA's Mars Climate satelite crashed. We live in a crazy world, no matter what Carl said. We have to understand those units out of the blue in this pale blue dot!
I hope we'll be careful in our everyday life.mfb said:We would have way more accidents like this if every country would use their own units.