"And the forestcast is 20 degrees all day..."
>click<
>grabs snow pants and winter jacket, bundles up<
>dies of heat stroke 5 minutes after walking out the door.<
Yeah..... miss me with that metric temperature. I like my bolts, fasteners, small parts, spec tollerances, technical information, and tools metric. My soda metric. Gas, milk, distances other than as used for fabrication or construction standard. Tell me you're 2.5 meters tall sounding like a hobbit even though you look like an NBA forward, nah homie. Nah. And a liter of gas? Wtf am I gonna do with a liter of gas? Start my lawn mower? That's just enough to drive to the next pump and get a damn gallon. If there isn't a syringe or a measuring cup present I don't need to hear about milliliters either. Outside science lab, the kitchen, or the doctor when will I need a ML? So metric is less thinking, less math, but it's not a common concept in most things and would require a lot of effort to switch over.
That makes no sense. Basically you're saying that imperial is better because you are used to it so it's more usefull in everyday life. Guess what, you could be just as used to metric. I mean your example about the forecast... Someone used to metric could do the exact same example, so it absolutely does not showcase the superiority of imperial system...
We're not bitching about it, the standard system has been selected as a globally accepted system, much like the English language being selected as lingua franca, no one is trying to impose it on you, but the standard system can be more easily understood by the rest of us. You can use your system for as long as you want, I don't care at all. I have learned your system as well so more fun for me
Literally nobody uses them, but yes. Also, centimetres are relatively rarely used profesionally; scientists use metres with the correct notation (10^x) to get the distance they need, and people like carpenters and mechanics will use millimetres to get the precision they need without having to worry about decimal places (and probably for other reasons too).
Also, a foot is 30.48 cm.
Actually precision machining uses micro meters and high precision manufacturing may even specify nanometers or microns vs standard precision measures requiring decimals in inches. In CAD machine work the common decimal place limits on measures tends to give higher resolution to metric over imperial on machines of equivalent cost and ability. Outside of cases where extreme precision is needed however the case becomes less clear for metric. In theory the math is simpler if needed- but since so many are used to standard, and many prefab units are done in imperial you'd still have to convert standard to metric to apply metric in those cases until the existing stock of imperial goods was exhausted, then redesign and re tool industry to the new metric standard or convert going forward. In the end it's like saving 30 seconds a day wiping your sink by spending millions in $ and years of time training an ant colony to do it for you. As life hacks go we may not see a good return at this point.
He/she said what is the foot equivalent. That's a pretty weired question and requirement, why should there be any precise equivalent for foot? That's an unscientific objection to anything. You say one kilo or two kilos of meat, what's the precise equivalent of bacon? It's absurd
I don’t think it’s an absurd statement. The point was there is a unit that is relatively long and then one that’s 1/100th with nothing in between that’s in general use.
In some ways it’s like using days and years but not months and weeks. (Yes I know it’s not exact but it’s the general concept)
More like having a week and a month, but not fortnight. Besides, since the measurements are all the same scale with a different factor of ten, rather than a foot being 12 inches for example, you can say either half a metre or 50 cm for the in-between, and tens of centimetres are probably used pretty comparatively to feet. But not called decimetres because that's just unnecessarily complicated.
Also, centimetres kind of are the in-between; SI units tend to get prefixes every third factor of ten, e.g. millilitre, litre, kilolitre.
I agree the metric system makes much more logical sense. I was merely stating that @asteroid’s characterization of the question about a foot equivalent in metric was harsh.
The way I was taught measurement everything centered around foot. 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 5280 feet in a mile. Without doing the math I don’t know how many yards in a mile.
A clear understanding of what the metric equivalent of a foot is would probably be very helpful for those who didn’t learn metric as a child to have a concept.
Same thing with pounds for weight. I don’t know the conversion rate of pounds to euros, how many euros in a stone and how many stones it takes to make a henge.
On that note, how many degrees is a circle in Celsius?
It’s very confusing when you didn’t grow up with it.
There are 360 degrees in a circle. I don't think that's related to centigrade at all. We didn't grow up with foot, inches, and miles. I convert them to meters and km every time and it's a little hard. Again with temperature degrees.
Imperial requires more thought than metric to use, this is true. But metric is already the predominant scientific unit. Outside the sciences crafts and construction are really the only other two areas where meaningful measures are used with much precision or regularity. Where I live most people give you units in time for distance. We would say "that place is about 20 minutes away this time of day" and not "oh, it's 3 miles" because two things the same distance away can take WAY different times depending on where they are, what time of day, and what direction you need to travel. To switch to metric would require an overhaul of everything from signs and standard sizes used in manufacturing, to tools, machinery, etc. for a long time you'd be mixing both metric and non as the standard sizes were phased out. For all the trouble and expense and people getting used to the new system, you'd save having to occasionally do math once in awhile. That's a big part of it anyway.
Celc might be better in the scientific realm (except kelvin is superior in that regard) but Fahr is exceedingly superior in the everyday practical application.
0C is kinda cold. 100C is literally dead, almost double the world record for hottest ambient temperature.
0F is really cold to 100F which is really hot but both are easily survivable. Just not all that comfortable.
Actually now that I think about it, there is no reason to use Celsius. The only metric where C is useful is for water freezing and boiling but anywhere else it might be relevant, K is much more applicable.
Put plainly- I believe that a large part of why myself and others prefer F is we are familiar with it. We know what 70f feels like intuitively compared to 90f. You could learn the same in celcius- but comparing the benefits of switching systems to the costs and hastles the benefits don't really equal out in everyday life. So that would be why F is "superior" primarily. Many people know it and are used to it and working with it. Many things in F countries are designed around it.
>click<
>grabs snow pants and winter jacket, bundles up<
>dies of heat stroke 5 minutes after walking out the door.<
Yeah..... miss me with that metric temperature. I like my bolts, fasteners, small parts, spec tollerances, technical information, and tools metric. My soda metric. Gas, milk, distances other than as used for fabrication or construction standard. Tell me you're 2.5 meters tall sounding like a hobbit even though you look like an NBA forward, nah homie. Nah. And a liter of gas? Wtf am I gonna do with a liter of gas? Start my lawn mower? That's just enough to drive to the next pump and get a damn gallon. If there isn't a syringe or a measuring cup present I don't need to hear about milliliters either. Outside science lab, the kitchen, or the doctor when will I need a ML? So metric is less thinking, less math, but it's not a common concept in most things and would require a lot of effort to switch over.
Convenient and practical? Yes.
Also, a foot is 30.48 cm.
In some ways it’s like using days and years but not months and weeks. (Yes I know it’s not exact but it’s the general concept)
Also, centimetres kind of are the in-between; SI units tend to get prefixes every third factor of ten, e.g. millilitre, litre, kilolitre.
The way I was taught measurement everything centered around foot. 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 5280 feet in a mile. Without doing the math I don’t know how many yards in a mile.
A clear understanding of what the metric equivalent of a foot is would probably be very helpful for those who didn’t learn metric as a child to have a concept.
Same thing with pounds for weight. I don’t know the conversion rate of pounds to euros, how many euros in a stone and how many stones it takes to make a henge.
On that note, how many degrees is a circle in Celsius?
It’s very confusing when you didn’t grow up with it.
0C is kinda cold. 100C is literally dead, almost double the world record for hottest ambient temperature.
0F is really cold to 100F which is really hot but both are easily survivable. Just not all that comfortable.