NameUnavail t1_j6djj9e wrote on January 29, 2023 at 4:16 PM

Reply to comment by travelinmatt76 in ELI5: how did we standardize on watts/amps/volts when everything else is segmented across the world (km/miles, nm/ft-lb etc)? by t0r3n0

Except for the fact that the US is literally one of two countries that haven't adopted metric.

But yeah, just like any other country

travelinmatt76 t1_j6ewxko wrote on January 29, 2023 at 9:30 PM

We do use metric, we learn metric in school and metric is exclusively used in science fields and engineering. There are countries besides the U.S. that use both metric and imperial. The U.S. uses U.S. Customary instead of imperial, and we use metric.