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>hurr durr we like multiplying by 10
meanwhile
>heres your base unit of pressure bro, you need a hundred thousand of them to describe room temperature air
>yes I'm sure "centimeter" "kilonewton" and "millilitre" are short and useful names, especially when talking about hundreds of them
>base unit of weight is the "kilo"gram not the gram, because gram sounds like le francois word for lord and we're retarded proto-communist revolutionaries
>You want a "third" of something? One part in three? Why would you ever want that?

The Imperial system is better at roughly everything, I will fight you all

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