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[–]fancyhatman18 -15ポイント-14ポイント  (20子コメント)

I always laugh at people that think the metric system is somehow more enlightened. "It is based around actual constants" like the freezing/boiling temperature of water at an arbitrary elevation. SUPER useful. "It's super easy to convert between different units" because we do unit conversions all the time.

The standard system of measurement actually has tons of useful features. Such as a foot that can easily be fractionally divided into inches. Base 10 is terrible for units that you are going to be using a lot in math.

[–]sosern 10ポイント11ポイント  (10子コメント)

an arbitrary elevation

Sea level...?

[–]fancyhatman18 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes, an arbitrary elevation. Sea level varies day by day and raises and lowers century by century.

[–]taint_a_chode -3ポイント-2ポイント  (8子コメント)

How often are people at perfect sea level atmospheric pressure. If it changes from moment to moment as pressures change, why is it suddenly better?

[–]QuiescentBramble 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

As often as they need to be?

We use average or mean sea level pressure, so it's a way of communicating across the world between languages. It's not suddenly better, its categorically better than other systems. However if you have another system in mind that works better, good news: science is open to it.

[–]SlitScan 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

sea level is just the zero point. dew point and freezing point are what people care about with respect to altitude

[–]taint_a_chode -1ポイント0ポイント  (2子コメント)

That is pretty much what I was saying. I don't care if water freezes at whatever temperature at sea level. Not saying it doesn't matter to the world of knowledge, just to my every day life, doesn't matter. Even at sea level, pressure systems come through making that point pretty meaningless. I understand the cleanliness of metric. I understand the day to day use of imperial. I spent enough years living in Europe that I can use either. I just crack up at how invested people get. Like it really impacts their day to day living in any way at all.

[–]SlitScan 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

for your average accountant or bank teller ya they can pretend that in their little bubble it won't matter.

don't assume that everyone is that disconnected from the rest of the world.

[–]taint_a_chode 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

What? Nobody is even suggesting other than base10 money system. I don't know what you are saying. Maybe you are talking about how weird it is nobody complaining about our strange base 60 time system.

[–]nerdvegas79 3ポイント4ポイント  (4子コメント)

Sorry, you're just wrong. Imperial is shithouse. How much does this liter of water weigh? A kilo. This quart? Fuck knows. A foot can be easily divided into inches eh? Wow that's amazing, almost the way meters can be divided into cm. base 10 is perfectly fine for everything, if you grow up with it, like everyone outside of America does.

[–]fancyhatman18 -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sorry, you're just wrong.

How often in your daily life are you calculating the weight of water? Is that something you're doing multiple times a day?

[–]Speed_Goat -1ポイント0ポイント  (1子コメント)

Americans use the metric system daily but don't let your bigotry slow you down

[–]nerdvegas79 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thinking imperial is shit doesn't make me a bigot. I think you need a dictionary.

[–]thekaleb -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

2 pounds.

[–]Vojta7 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

OK, let's say you're making something, need to know how much is (15/16" - 3/32" + 2.5 ft)/2, and don't have a calculator/phone. Are you fucked?

Now try the same in metric (using approximate values): (23.8 mm - 2.4 mm + 76.2 cm)/2 = (2.38 - 0.24 + 76.2)/2 cm=39.17 cm...

[–]fancyhatman18 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

2'7 1/32

not exactly hard to do in your head. You just mismatched your units in standard to make it seem harder.

(30/32 + 3/32 + 2'6 = 2'7 1/32)

I guess it would be hard if you can't handle fractions, whose denominators are multiples of each other, in your head.

[–]yarpen_z 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

The standard system of measurement actually has tons of useful features. Such as a foot that can easily be fractionally divided into inches. Base 10 is terrible for units that you are going to be using a lot in math.

Can you give examples? I've approached such situation.

How does dividing foot into 16 inches is easier than dividing meter into 100 centimeters? You're working on a base of 10 in virtually every arithmetic systems in engineering (except maybe CS & Maths, where you switch to different bases sometimes), hence it's very easy to convert between units related as different powers of 10. How easy is adding values expressed in different units in both systems?

[–]fancyhatman18 -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

16 inches in a foot.....

Ha ha you don't even know enough about standard units to argue this. Clearly you're over your head here. At least learn about a system before you try to argue about it.