A Cool Dude@lemmy.mlM to Comics@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoOnly telling people my height in cm from now onlemmy.mlimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageOnly telling people my height in cm from now onlemmy.mlA Cool Dude@lemmy.mlM to Comics@lemmy.ml · 1 month agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoYou can see this was made by an American. Because why would the European use decimals for their own height? Just so it rounds to the nearest inch? Unlikely.
minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoParticularly one who doesn’t understand significant figures. Are you certain that you’re precisely 74.000 inches, without even a thousandth of an inch of rounding? If not, you don’t get to use 5 sigfigs when converting.
You can see this was made by an American.
Because why would the European use decimals for their own height? Just so it rounds to the nearest inch? Unlikely.
That’s the joke my friend
Particularly one who doesn’t understand significant figures. Are you certain that you’re precisely 74.000 inches, without even a thousandth of an inch of rounding? If not, you don’t get to use 5 sigfigs when converting.