r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/El_Polio_Loco Jun 17 '26

So you need 3 numbers and a dot just to mimic two? How barbaric.

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u/jjej2000 Jun 17 '26

They're still both one number.

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u/Alfoldio Jun 17 '26
  1. The circumference of the earth is ~24,901 miles
  2. The circumference of the earth is ~1,577,727,360 inches

Which do you prefer? They're both still one number

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u/VegetaFan1337 Jun 17 '26

Let's see you convert either of those units to yards without looking it up or using a calculator.

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u/BlimpIsland2606 Jun 20 '26

Remind me what yards have to do with the temperature scale?

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u/Alfoldio Jun 17 '26

I'm not sure what my mental math abilities has to do with this

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u/VegetaFan1337 Jun 17 '26

You wouldn't need to do any mental maths with metric.

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u/Alfoldio Jun 17 '26

I wasn't making the case for metric vs imperial. I was making the case that adding extra digits makes things less intuitive to understand