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[โ€“] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the USA, it would be to metric. Pretty much everywhere else in the US, NASA, military, science, it's all metric.

[โ€“] gazter@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

It's not even a case of 'everywhere else', it's actually 'everywhere'.

It's just that some sections of that 'everywhere' take the metric system and add an abstraction on top of it.

The imperial system literally defines itself by the metric system.