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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A foot is convenient size for most things.

Aka '30 cm', it's not hard to say. As someone from a metric country you just say the absolute cm value, or maybe 'half a metre', etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Also every single kid who grew up in a metric country intuitively knows how long 30cm is. That's the length of a standard school ruler.. in the pencil case of every child.