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Natalia (nataliaarmyof1@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 04:52:52 JST Natalia

🤣🤣🤣 it's funny because it's true!
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  GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 04:54:52 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
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  @NataliaArmyOf1 Image description:
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  to remember how many feet there are in a mile, u just gotta use 5 tomatoes
  five to-mate-oes sounds like five, two, eight, 0 and there's 5280 feet in a mile.
  Reply by tumblr user official-deutschland:
  To remember how many meters there are in a kilometre you just remember "1000" because the system of measurement in the rest of the world wasn't invented by a drunk mathematician rolling dice.
  
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  GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 04:59:00 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
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  @koteisaev Everybody knows that, my dear. Even Germans. We used to measure in Elle, Fuß, Meile and Pfund, too, before we went metric, and we still hear those measurements in fairy tales and other old books, so we are not unaware of them - besides it being obvious for „foot“.
  Now tell me which body part mile is based on 😂
  
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  Magical Cat (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 04:59:01 JST Magical Cat
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  @NataliaArmyOf1 Foots and alike are based on length of parts of human body.
  "Drunk mathematician rolling dice" was funny to read, but sadly for everyone who dislike mathematicians, this is not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)
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    Foot (unit)
    
    The foot (pl. feet), standard symbol: ft, is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly used to represent the foot. In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet. Since an international agreement in 1959, the foot is defined as equal to exactly 0.3048 meters. Historically, the "foot" was a part of many local systems of units, including the Greek, Roman, Chinese, French, and English systems. It varied in length from country to country, from city to city, and sometimes from trade to trade. Its length was usually between 250 mm and 335 mm and was generally, but not always, subdivided into 12 inches or 16 digits. The United States is the only industrialized country that uses the (international) foot in preference to the meter in its commercial, engineering, and standards activities. The foot is legally recognized in the United Kingdom; road distance signs must use imperial units (however, distances on road signs are always...
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  GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 04:30:35 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
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  @Selena Where do you live? In Germany nowadays a pound is also 500 g, for weighing babies and bread, maybe minced meat. But it used to be different in the 19th century and each state had a different standard.
  
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  Selena (selena@ivoor.eu)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 04:30:36 JST Selena
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  @GreenSkyOverMe @koteisaev
  Ounces and pounds remind me of my childhood.
  At our school we had pretty old math-books that used a lot of ounces and pounds, but rounded to metric (ounces are 100 gram, pounds are 500 gram).
  Seems that use was pretty common in the early&mid 20th century, as a way of measuring groceries at the market. Which is the only place where I still use it.
  
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  Freek Bomhof (freekbomhof@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 04:30:49 JST Freek Bomhof
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  @BarneyDellar @koteisaev @GreenSkyOverMe ... Where Wikipedia tells me that one pace actually involved two footsteps - hence a mile would be appr 1500 meters (and not ~750..900m as I initially thought)
  
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  Barney Dellar (he/him) (barneydellar@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 04:30:52 JST Barney Dellar (he/him)
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  @koteisaev @GreenSkyOverMe Huh. It had never occurred to me that Mile was related to “mile” meaning thousand. Thanks, I learnt something today!
  
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  Magical Cat (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 04:30:53 JST Magical Cat
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  @GreenSkyOverMe The Roman mile is 1000 paces (steps, literally), so I see Roman mile "based on body part or action done with it".
  Statute Mile is based on length of survey rod, so this is not drunk math, but more like ugly law.
  Regardless of historic reasons I agree in the simple fact that metric system has much more sense and happy to live in a "metric" country.
  
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