I'm euro, but I use murican measurements sometimes. Inches are more practical than centimeters, because the size is closer to the range of things that needs to be measured in them. An inch is a good measure for anything small enough to hold in your hands, but big enough not to be lost inside a junk drawer.
It is more descriptive so say a few feet, than say 87 cm. If exact measurements are required, one should use scientific e notation for the number and just one unit. No need for mm cm m km.
I prefer to say a few miles away to saying a few kilometers away. A mile is a thing in itself. A kilometer is a constant multiplied by a thing. 1000 * meter.
Ease of conversion among derived units may mask the fact that in reality the connection is not straight forward.
Intuitively it would feel more useful to have units with exponential size increase rather than linear.
Ethan Ramirez
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Camden Morales
>Arbitrary
You're right. Water isn't the foundation of life, where it started and what we are primarily composed of. It's just some random shit like a knuckle that those retards decided to use.
Bentley White
>water is the foundation of life Next you'll say that base-10 is non-arbitrary
Jeremiah Carter
When are you going to accept that the only reason you like the system, it's because it's called imperial and you have an authoritarian boner.
Robert Cook
The reason America does not switch to metric is because
1. We would need to retool all our manufacturing and as the world's #1 manufacturing nation this is not a small task 'but my country did this, it's no big deal' is not an excuse. Your country is shit, all your countries are shit, America is the #1 manufacturing center on Earth.
2. We would need to ignore thousands of historical books and rewrite hundreds of textbooks. Stupid
3. There is no reason to change. I carry in my pocket access to all the knowledge on Earth. I can ask anytime to convert any unit of measurement to any other unit of measurement and receive an answer in a nanosecond. Carrying about conversion in the information age is lunacy.
4. I know what a meter is, I know what an inch is, I know what a liter is, I know what a gallon is, I know what 1 degree Fahrenheit is, I know what 1 degree C is so who cares?
Dominic Martin
>We would need to ignore thousands of historical books
c'mon, this is exactly what americans do anyway
Eli Lopez
We use base 10 because we have 10 fingers
Even something as basic as this is based on the human body
Jayden Perez
While of course its true that unit systems are a tool and we should always use the ones that fit our needs best, I've never been in a situation where imperial was more convenient for any reason other than that the people I'm working with or who designed my equipment were insisting on imperial and its easier to go with the flow. Any situation where I don't have instruments or don't need accuracy and so am measuring with parts of my body, its more natural to say "knuckles" and "paces" instead of inches and feet to better communicate the very approximate nature of the numbers I'm giving
