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Comment by ysleepy

I continue to be baffled by the arcane units in the US.

This uses a measure on the completely wrong abstraction level.

An accidental production process now defines a wire unit instead the end result the consumer/engineer/technician wants to know (mm^2 or inch^2 oh no no it's pica^2 ?).

There must be some sociological phenomenon going on that keeps the US from adopting modern units. Maybe can't admit a shortcoming and fix it?

parent ysleepy 10 years ago

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