Do americans actually do math with imperial system at school? That must be a nightmare and have conversion errors between units.
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It's obvious that there's 1760 yards in a mile.
There's 22 yards in a chain, which we can all remember because of the 22 yard line in rugby.
There are 10 chains in a furlong, which fans of metric can't complain about.
There are 8 furlongs in a mile, just like there are 8 pints in a gallon.
And 22x10x8 = 11x10x16 and 11 is easy to multiply by in your head, so it's really very simple to get to 1760.
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this but unironically.
Sigh, I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, I'm sure. After a 16 year career as a machinist in the US and having to easily change between both systems daily, one system is dozenal and fractional and one is decimal based. Dozenal and fractional are both easier and faster when you start thinking that way. A mile isn't 1760 yards precisely, it's 5,280 feet. 5,280 / 12 = 440. It's dozenal. All units, and I mean all units are arbitrary. Someone just decided x means y. Whether it's "this amount of silicon atoms is 1kg" or "this specific length of barley corn is 1 inch" - they're both defined by a decision that someone (or a group) just kinda made.
both easier and faster when you start thinking that way.
Let me translate: "This system is easier because I am more used to it".
I can assure you there is nothing difficult about decimals if you are used to them.
No, I'm incredibly used to both, and that's my point.
I kinda want a hexadecimal version of the metric system.
In hex:
10 mm = 1cm
100cm = 1m
1000m = 1km
1km - 1m = FFFm = 0.FFFkm
Still works fine.
Measurement system doesn't have anything to do with numerical base. You can use any base with any system.
16m = Fm
which is pretty ass if you ask me
Americans choose to meassure thier dicks with the thumb of a british king instead of using meters... or GIGAmeters... there are no right awnsers, right?
1,000 kilometres = 1 megametre
0.01 Petameters
My contrarian brain:
- 1 inch = 1 cm
- 1 yard = 1 meter
- 1 mile = 1 km
This is upsetting
Uh, no.
10 feet = 1 decafoot
100 centiyards = 1 yard
1x10^18 attoacres = 1 acre
I’m gonna start estimating distances in millimiles.
1 millimile ~ 5 feet, 3 and 23/64 inches.
makes perfect sense.
This would be acceptable
It only seems ridiculous because you forgot some intermediates: 5.5 yards = 1 rod, 4 rods = 1 chain, 10 chain = 1 furlong, and 8 furlong = 1 mile. So just gotta remember 12, 3, 5.5, 4, 10, 8. Super simple.
Don't make me math
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Frankly you shouldn't even be using prefixes anyway. SI units are kg, m, and s and if you need to refer to large or small units, you just use scientific notation. e.g. 5.6 × 10²¹m
Prefixes are more succinct, while still being as unambiguous as scientific notation. (Plus it's trivial to convert from one to another.)
I mean the yard and pound have been defined by metric for a long time so it's really just an indirect metric system so the USs feelings don't get hurt.
Sir, this is a Wendy's, we measure in common units around here...
I prefer absolute units and natural units.
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Meanwhile the UK naming their currency after a sex act.
Wait till you hear about the energy efficiency ratio
Ew
Good thing the EU has an SI-unit alternative...
is that the one where they measure one half in BTUs and the other in KWh for some reason
One big cube for ice in my study room for me please.
Boooorrrrrriiiiiiing
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Yeah, after learning Japanese in 3 different writing systems, one of which has thousands of characters... I'm never hearing criticism of Imperial units again
If you consider hiragana and katakana to be different writing systems, then English lower and upper case letters are two different writing systems, too.
Not that it makes Kanji any easier to learn.
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