This is why we should use the Imperial System
10 years ago by rippbaby · 462 Likes · 7 comments · Trending
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sadtruth
· 10 years ago
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And the imperial system is much cooler so yeah MURICA
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chakun
· 10 years ago
I tried to give more thumbs up...
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saltlakesnark
· 10 years ago
Metric is easier to use by far. I cook a lot and it's especially nice for baking. Measuring everything with a scale in grams gives better and more consistent results. Base 10 and base 6 are so much easier to use once you learn them, rather then having to memorize dozens of different conversions and equivalencies.
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sadtruth
· 10 years ago
I was talking about the picture, I didn't actually mean it...
saltlakesnark
· 10 years ago
Don't worry, some people can't take a joke. The stereotypical American archetype will never not be funny.
guest
· 10 years ago
Actually base 12 (what a lot of imperial units use) has a lot going for it. Its highly composite (has 4 divisors 2,3,4,6) while base 10 (decimal/metric) only has 2 and 5. This makes it really easy to do a lot of division or fractions ( 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and 1/6 are pretty easy to figure out when using base 12). Its already used in a lot of places, time is in base 12, grocers sell a lot of items in dozens or gross (12 dozen). It wouldn't be "too" hard to count on your fingers with it, since you could use the knuckles of your fingers instead of each whole finger (4 fingers with 3 parts each, using your thumbs to point to the number you are counting, you could actually easily count to 144 this way) The main problem with it is the fact that all our numbers still originate from base 10. We'd have to completely change 11 and 12 to some single symbol (like in base 16 they use 123456789ABCDEF0) and getting the entire world population to change over to something like that would be extremely hard
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guest
· 10 years ago
and long process. Which means it would also be extremely expensive to implement. These are the same main reasons the US refuses to change to metric.
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