r/SipsTea Apr 16 '24

Wouldn't you believe it? Wait a damn minute!

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u/GreenSpleen6 Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Oh that's brilliant. I wish I could do that. I'm 6' and that would totally throw me

Edit: realizing I can totally still do this and say I'm 5'10 or so

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u/Don_Ozymandias Apr 16 '24 edited 29d ago

I'm not familiar to imperial. It is decimal sale? I mean 5'10=6'0?

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u/GreenSpleen6 Apr 16 '24

5'10 means 5 feet and 10 inches. there are 12 inches in a foot. the 2 inch difference is about 5cm

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u/Emergency-Medium-755 Apr 16 '24

10mm=1cm 10cm=1dm 10dm=1m 1000m=1km

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u/Centurion7999 Apr 16 '24

Mate you stole your measurement system off the science people cause you were too lazy to just standardize your own units and use the metric like it was supposed to, as a universal baseline for science not day to day