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      Height in centimeters?

      Yeah, it’s in centimeters. 158 cm is 0.000853132 and 188 is 0.00101512 in nautical miles, if that helps any.

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        Alternatively, as a smaller scale, 158 cm and 188 cm are only 0.01727909011373578 and 0.020559930008748905 football fields, respectively. Hope this helps.

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          Sometimes, that 0.00328084th of a football field makes all the difference in the world…

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      It’s what most of the world uses. Tea-ville and Yeehawland are the only two that typically use imperial still.

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        We don’t even use the same type of imperial either

        If France could just lie for a few years and say that they’re adopting the British system, it might persuade us to finally metricise properly out of spite and I’d be extremely grateful to them

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        Not just tea-ville, but former tea-ville colonies also measure human height in feet and inched. And former tea-ville colonies make up a large portion of the human populace.

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          I live in New Zealand, we don’t use inches. In fact, you’re required to use metric if you’re selling a product, as that’s our official measurement system.

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        Most of London The UK uses Miles Per Hour for speed limits. That’s just the biggest example off the top of my head. Your assertion is inaccurate.

        Edit: A weird thing to downvote but ok. It’s more than just London, it’s the whole UK.

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        In Germany, we usually express height in meters and centimeters, like 1 meter 58 or 1 meter 88.

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            Feel free to say it any way you like, it makes no difference:

            • 1.58 meters
            • 158 centimeters
            • 1 meter 58 centimeters

            It’s all the exact same thing, nobody will bat an eye.

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      Practice using metric. Not kidding, as an American it’s sometimes frustrating but most things are available in metric and there is a quite large convenience factor

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        I can tolerate distances in metric, but I draw the line at personal measurements!

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      Yeah I had to read it twice to figure it wasn’t years. And I use metric, so I know exactly how tall these two are but for some reason it didn’t click on the first read

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      It’s nothing. Without a unit those are just numbers. A can of coke isn’t 12, it’s 12floz.

      Or so my metric companions don’t shit themselves in their panic-induced rage at the sight of imperial units, a coke can isn’t 355, it’s 355mL.

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          I’ll accept the lowercase L (in my East Coast based US education we were taught liters should always be capital L, but that seems to either be flat-out incorrect or have fallen out of fashion), but googling images of the cans shows me no space between the number and the unit.

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            I hadn’t even noticed that you didn’t put a space between the number and the unit. Looking it up online, the Bureau international des poids et mesures states that a space is to be used in front of all units, except for °, ’ and ". Dropping the space is very common though.

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              It’s cool to learn the official guidelines; thanks for doing the legwork here!