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Metric is a product of the French Revolution, as well as decimal currency like cents. Some decimalization from the French Revolution didn’t catch on widely, like gradians for measuring angles or decimal minutes, hours, and weeks. The imperial units were standardized by various monarchies (hence the name).
5 points
We use decimal inches in machine shops, that’s a metric system.
SI though, that’s what gets people mad.
6 points
Except for some reason you didn’t come up with your own units for:
- electric potential difference
- electric charge
- electric current
- resistance
- capacitance
- inductance
- magnetic flux
- amount of substance
- radioactivity
- …
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