I remember being slightly worried that my US-born MIT-trained Mechanical Engineer had designed the first version of our medical devices from my drawings using inches. Good thing engineers are sane.
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Canadian-born Waterloo-trained Mechanical Engineer, here - we alway had to do both - imperial and metric.
That's sucks. Who would use imperial versions? 😅
An economy that's highly integrated with the US. Canada is strange that way. I think of long distances in kilometers, but I'm 6'2". Small weights are grams, but I weigh 185lbs. You get really good at conversions. 😂
Yeah, I remember when we officially switched over in the late 70’s. I remember putting transparent decals on my dad’s car speedometer converting miles/ hr to kph. In some ways we’ve regressed back to the imperial system. It made me reflect that units of measure are always relative in our minds instead of absolute. Same applies with fiat currency and why sats are so hard to learn on a day to day usage basis. People are more used to relative fiat prices and that won’t go away soon.
These units in the US doesn't make any sense! Why not use a unit that grows and shrinks by a factor of 10... And Celsius instead of Farenheits... Again factors of 10. And water freezes at 0 and boils at 100... Isn't that simple!? 🤌😀
Not all, remember the arianne rocket. That was a British engineer who didnt convert o ring size from imperial to metric for manufacturing if I remember correctly
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Everything is metric. Even when I use inches, it's really metric under the hood.
We work with a lot of servo motors, and they're dimensioned in metric 95% of the time, anyway, so if I don't want to stack rounding errors, it'll be metric.