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		walshemj on Aug 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system... I think for "work" the UK has switched to metric as Imperial is just such a PITA for anything technical. For social/general use it still pretty much Imperial

arethuza on Aug 9, 2014 [–]

Anyone into walking/climbing is probably used to metric for heights and distances as OS maps have been metric for ages.

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