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travelinmatt76 t1_j6deorl wrote

Reply to comment by NameUnavail in ELI5: how did we standardize on watts/amps/volts when everything else is segmented across the world (km/miles, nm/ft-lb etc)? by t0r3n0

Nope, we're just like any other country

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NameUnavail t1_j6djj9e wrote

Except for the fact that the US is literally one of two countries that haven't adopted metric.

But yeah, just like any other country

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travelinmatt76 t1_j6ewxko wrote

We do use metric, we learn metric in school and metric is exclusively used in science fields and engineering. There are countries besides the U.S. that use both metric and imperial. The U.S. uses U.S. Customary instead of imperial, and we use metric.

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