• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    The US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.

    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      The US measures are based on an older Imperial system that Britain changed. There were different measures in different parts of the UK.

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      Technically theses days they use SI with weird conversion factors, and call that by the old US customary names

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        I don’t think that is any different than SI changing the definition of a meter and calling it a meter still.