Matteo Lovato asked Stuart Gibbs:

Hello Stuart, Just finished CT and Royal Society, awesome story! However, reading it I encountered a thing that “bothered” me: measure system. Sometimes you use meters, other feet and yards… why don’t stick with a system and stay with it?

Stuart Gibbs I think that, for the most part, I usually stick with American measurements, but might shift to meters if it makes sense. (Like perhaps if a European is speaking, or they're in another country where things would be measured using the metric system.) Whatever the case, I can't remember each instance of using one or the other, but I am going to presume that I don't shift back and forth that much. If I do... well, all I can say is that having two different systems for measuring things has implications in the book world as well as the real world.

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