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<twitches in metric prefix>

60 micrometres. "micron" is a deprecated irregular word that is unlike every other scaling of the metre.



Listen, our shoe sizes are measured in barleycorns, so we’re doing the best we can to adopt metric in places.


Correct me if I'm wrong "micron" IS metric (decimal based system) but it's NOT an SI unit?


Eh. At least this one is just a name. I don't know how precise we have to be in a blog post, you know? They're the exact same unit.




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