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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes it is, but SI is not all metric. Metric is fundamentally a base 10 system. Time is base 60 you can probably thank the ancient Sumerians for that but there's some debate.

At one point the French tried to make metric time a thing but it didn't stick.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Short times are always given in scales of 10 for seconds (ms, μs, ns). And long ones can be too.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And machinists in America use decimal inches, but I don't think anyone would say that inches is metric.

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