Once there will be no more digits to use for displaying price per gallon they will be forced to display price per liter as it still could fit

  • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    We tried the metric thing in the 1970s - people hated it. Some things stuck like alcohol measurement in ml. Most didn’t .

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      6 days ago

      I was in Middle School/ High School at that time, and remember the attempted transition well. I even remember a science teacher telling us that THIS is going to be the way things are from now on, and we’d just better get used to it.

      About 15 years later, I was using a standard American slide rule, and remembered that, and thought “Guess not, Poindexter.”