The red squiggly underlines make me sad.
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Screenshooting a Word document is utterly disgusting.
Absolutely! It should be an OpenDocument Spreadsheet
Screenshooting, lol.
I’m an American and I approve this message.
Go to sleep!
I just awoke from 21ks of sleep.
God, I wish we used this here. It is such a better system than our system of potholes being measured in washing machines in some parts of the country.
What you're too fancy to divide by 25.4 or multiply by .0397?
...1" ≈ 2 ½ cm, 5' ≈ 1 ½ m, close-enough to convert in your head...
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Me head has a dent the size of two small pollocks, or a couple elderly bonobo tits, if you like.
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It's deca, not deka
Not in German 😶
American who just woke up... upvote cuz metric
Downvote cuz screenshot, and SWAT OP cuz Word.
The list isn't even complete 
Should have been millo, cento, deco, hecta and kila instead of milli, centi, deci, hecto, and kilo.
And kilo should have been K nit k, and all should have matching characters not k-m, M-μ, G-n, T-p, P-f, E-a.
Only Z-z, Y-y, Q-q, R-r are nice.
μ is probably the greatest sin as it isn't present on way too many keyboard layouts.
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Ronna/ronto quetta/quecto were added in 11/22.
Where are the metric units? All I see is prefixes explained
My sibling in Satan, that's the backbone of the metric system. Nobody said anything about units.
Gotcha, so we're talking kilotons and microinches then?
Or is it actually the units that make the metric system scary to Americans?
To further add to this, a unit would be something basic like litre, metre, or a gram. So 1000 litres is a kilolitre. 1000 metres is a kilometre. 1000 grams is a kilogram. You may be familiar with the computer byte. A kilobyte is 1000 bytes. A megabyte is 1000 of those. Everything is divisible by 10, and everything makes sense.
Interestingly, even though a calorie isn’t a metric unit (the joule is), the energy to raise 1 millilitre of water by 1 degree Celsius is 1 calorie.
Also, 1 gram of water is 1 millilitre. And if you measure that in size, that’s 1 cubic centimetre. So if you go buy a litre of water, you know it’ll be 1000 cubic centimetres, and it’ll weight 1kg.
nooooo my teaspoon measurements!
US, UK, Canadian or metric teaspoon? It's all different measurements.
Joke's on you; I'm an insomniac.
And FWIW we use the metric system too. We just tend to mix it with US Customary, like how Canada and The UK does with Metric and Imperial. Except the UK uses more Metric than Imperial. Vice versa for the US. Food is sold using both. Science and computing are always in Metric. And a few other things too but it's 4am and I'm too tired to think.
Edit: I don't even know how a CPU's temperature translates to Fahrenheit, but for weather it makes perfect sense. I know that 100°F is hot for outside, and that 80°C is hot for a processor. But I couldn't tell you what is what if you swapped the measurements.
If you'd swap those, your CPU would be super cool and outside would be deadly.
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This is wrong. Some identifiers should start with a lowercase letter (like kilo)
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And then there're the Americans who point at the Metric system and scream "why not us". Which is anyone who's sane and not afraid of change.
Americans
sane
I am by no means sane, but I'm all about metric.
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This isn’t the metric system.
Sleep deprived Canadian approves.
American here up voting because sane measurements.
It's just so confusing, the American system is so much better /s
American expat upvoting for science
I wait to the day the US rejects the metric completely, and invents a new system for Voltage measurement (proposed unit names: cell, shock, spark).
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it's beautiful
Those sexy sexy parabolas
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