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In Germany, we usually express height in meters and centimeters, like 1 meter 58 or 1 meter 88.
Only in informal communication. Medical software and official documents (like you ID card) usually use cm.
True, I didn't think about that.
Don't you guys use decimeters?
Rarely
That makes a lot more sense to a 'Murican like me coming from imperial.
Feel free to say it any way you like, it makes no difference:
It's all the exact same thing, nobody will bat an eye.
except it would be 1,58 meters
That's also quiet common, especially in engineering, which doesn't use CM.