I'm five foot twenty-five centimetres tall

[pne]

I'm curious as to what sort of units you use to measure various things, especially since I've heard that some people will use a mixture of metric and non-metric units depending on the object (one example given was measuring distances in miles but speeds in kilometres per hour, or measuring short distances in inches and feet but longer ones in metres and kilometres).

If you answer "other", or want to add anything, please comment on this entry.

Edit to add: I'm also interested in how you'd measure the diagonal of (a) a television set and (b) a computer monitor. (For example, in Germany (a) is usually in cm while (b) is usually in inches.)

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Comments

[davorg.livejournal.com]

To be pedantic, my thermometer would be marked in degress _Celsius_.

A Centrigrade scale is any scale that divides the range between the freezing and boiling points of water in 100 degrees.

Both Kelvin and Celsius are Centigrade scales. Celsius is the one where 0 is placed at the freezing point of water.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thanks; I'll try to remember that.