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		jacquesm on July 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes No, 'international' does not mean 'French'. Yes, the French came up with it but since it now has international adoption it is the international standard with the United States as one of the last hold-outs. That's what you get when you have a country run by lawyers with very limited input from science.

2038AD on July 5, 2020 | [–]

Inches are in fact an international standard to which multiple nations have formally agreed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_yard_and_pound

jacquesm on July 5, 2020 | | [–]

You'll notice that they are defined in terms of SI units.

2038AD on July 5, 2020 | | | [–]

I do notice

knolax on July 5, 2020 | [–]

The metric system is decidedly biased in favor of languages that use 10^3 prefixes as opposed to 10^4 prefixes or 10^5 prefixes.

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