• huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      43 minutes ago

      yes, it’s generally easier to remember 10 as the conversion number and nothing else, and it’s also easier not to have to add/multiply fractions of an inch in your head.

      this also works between types of units, so it’s pretty simple to remember that 10cm^3 is 1l is ~1kg of water, for example.

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        35 minutes ago

        I already know how many cups to a pint, pints to a quart, and quarts to a gallon there are bad fractions are so simple that we learn them in the 1st grade.

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          30 minutes ago

          it’s still more stuff to remember than you have to in metric. but yes, of course, now that you’ve already spent years memorizing this shit and practicing fraction addition/multiplication in your head a lot, it seems easy to you.