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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:
     Tumblr user adhd heather:
     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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     • Kote Isaev

     @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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     Kote Isaev (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 04:59:01 JST Kote Isaev

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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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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 04:30:35 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Selena

     @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 (Monika)

     @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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     • Barney Dellar (he/him)

     @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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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @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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     Kote Isaev (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 04:30:53 JST Kote Isaev

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @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.