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mh-01/16/20251 replyview on HN

You can forget to carry a 1 in metric, too.


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rvnx01/17/2025

It won't save everything will will reduce at least two possibles routes of mistake (wrong unit, or imprecise conversion).

OP wrote "km miles", which would create an incident.

SpaceX uses metric system for that exact reason, because in the past, on Mars, accident happened because of imperial measures.

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