• survivalmachine@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      That’s a common misconception. Europeans hate standard measurements, but they aren’t dumb. They can do conversions.

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      10 months ago

      It’s nice to have some quick mental conversions ready.

      1 mile is roughly 1.6 km, so 100 miles is roughly 160 km

      3 feet is roughly a meter

      2 pounds are roughly 1 kg

      1 gallon is roughly 4 liters

      32 fahrenheit it 0 celcius, 100 fahrenheit is slightly over body temperature, 200 fahrenheit is almost enough to boil water… Any other value requires math to figure out…

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        10 months ago

        Any other value requires math to figure out

        -40° requires no math. Too cold to do math at that temp anyway.