this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
1421 points (97.5% liked)
Memes
45172 readers
2344 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
God, I wish we used this here. It is such a better system than our system of potholes being measured in washing machines in some parts of the country.
What you're too fancy to divide by 25.4 or multiply by .0397?
...1" ≈ 2 ½ cm, 5' ≈ 1 ½ m, close-enough to convert in your head...
Multiplication by a number smaller than one is division
Correct
Me head has a dent the size of two small pollocks, or a couple elderly bonobo tits, if you like.
We do use it where necessary; in science, engineering and the military, for example. Some of our imperial units suck, but others, like pounds and feet and inches are superior because they are more intuitive. The reality is that it's a non-issue for most people and because of that we will almost always have some version of a mixed system, as do most of the other Anglophone countries.
What? How is feet and pounds more intuitive? To me metric is more intuitive and imperials are whole another language, because I only learnt metric in school and only remember very few things in imperial (such as some dimensions on specific parts of bicycles).
Converting yards to inches in your head is near damn impossible, but you don't even need to count to know 5.25km is 5250m or 525000cm