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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fahrenheit is a scale of temperature that Americans don't use for aviation.

My favorite example of mixed units is the standard adiabatic lapse rate, given as 2 degrees C per 1000 feet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't a foot defined as 0.3048 meters anyways?

So its really a metric derivative

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It starts with metric, so really it's just the next evolution of metric

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Its mors like metric came and colonized it

Keep in mind, the reason it is like this is because its cheaper to base off metric than to define the standard by your self