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[โ€“] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the interesting info! I figured it was used somewhere, just hadn't seen it.

And reminded me of the unit I saw once that I hate the most. Kilofeet... Not kidding. Apparently used in telecommunications as a unit of length for spools of cable, probably for similar reasons of easier math but couldn't fully switch from the US standard.

[โ€“] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Lmao that too. We use kilopounds as well because tons are too easily confused with metric tons