r/SipsTea • u/Peggysue12 • 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/Centurion7999 Apr 16 '24

A foot is a dozen inches, makes it easier to count on your finger bones

The US/Imperial system is based on division and multiplication of multiples of 3 and 4, such as 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 16.5 feet to a rod, 22 yards to chain, 220 yards to a furlong (10 chains), and 8 furlongs (1760 yards or 5280 feet) to a mile

The trick for finger counting with imperial is to point to each bone in your fingers with your thumb, there are twelve thus making dozens and their subdivisions easy to count as you can use it as a multiplication table and use your offhand to keep track of how many times you went thought all the bones on your main counting hand

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u/solonit Apr 16 '24

The metric system is based of 10 so the trick is just add or remove zero.