Metric is for people who don't actually do things. The measurements have no basis in the natural world except obscure concepts like the (incorrect) size of the earth, while imperial measurements are based on useful amounts. More importantly, imperial measurements are measured in ways to allow them to divide cleanly.
You have a gallon. You half it. Now you have 2 quarts (or 4 pints.) You half it two more times, now you have a cup. There are 16 ounces in that cup, giving you four more clean divisions. (1/2, 1/4. 1/8, 1/16)
Also, base 12 and base 16 are way easier to deal with as binary. Your days of "dur the math is easier" are on the way out as more things become binary.
If you are actually working with real things, Imperial is superior. If you are doing abstract math about things that you aren't going to touch, then sure, simple-minded metric is the way to go.
Metric is for people who don't actually do things.
Who used to do things, past tense
>The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is defined as 299792458 metres per second (approximately 300000 km/s or 186000 mi/s).[Note 3] It is exact because, by international agreement, a metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1⁄299792458 second.[Note 4][3] According to special relativity, c is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter, energy or any signal carrying information can travel through space. A light-year is a distance unit, defined as the distance travelled by light in one Julian year. The speed of light is sometimes referred to as lightspeed, especially in science fiction. ... >The speed of light in imperial units and US units is based on an inch of exactly 2.54 cm... is approximately 186282 miles, 698 yards, 2 feet, and 5 inches per second.
Your shit's lame and outdated end of story. The only reason the US still uses it is because it's a former british colony
>In the twelfth century, Henry I of England decreed that a yard would be the distance from his nose to the thumb of his outstretched arm.
lol
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This, is order
1 centimeter = 10 millimeters 1 decimeter = 10 centimeters 1 meter = 10 decimeters 1 dekameter = 10 meters 1 hectometer = 10 dekameters 1 kilometer = 10 hectometers
This, is a glorified mess
1 foot = 12 inches 1 yard = 3 feet 1 chain = 22 yards 1 furlong = 10 chains 1 mile = 8 furlongs 1 league = 3 miles
Clown world units, literally
And it gets better:
The British Imperial fluid ounce is equal to 28.413 milliliters, while in the U.S. Customary System it is equivalent to 29.573 ml.
A pint in the British Imperial System is 568.261 milliliters (or 20 fluid ounces), while a U.S. pint is just 473.176 ml (or 16 fluid ounces).
A British Imperial quart is equal to 1.13 liters (or 40 fluid ounces), whereas a quart in the U.S. Customary System is 0.94 l (or 32 fluid ounces).
A gallon in the British Imperial System is equal is 4.54 liters (or 160 fluid ounces) while a U.S. gallon is equal to 3.78 liters (or 128 fluid ounces).
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Yes, everything is fake in america, even the imperial system
Welcome to clownworld
Actually, it was all based roughly on available middle ages measuring units for markets. Like you'd use your hands to measure the height of a horse rather than "feet" but you'd "measure" a distance with the length of feet to get an approximate measurement.
Imagine if we measured time like the metric system: 1 seconds in 1 Earth rotation, 10 deci-seconds in a second, 10 centi-seconds in a deci-second, 10 milli-seconds in a centi-second.
Why not do that?
Metric is based on 1 meter, which is based on 1 second of a half pendulum swing. A second is based on 1⁄86400 of a day. There are 60 seconds to 1 minute, 60 min to 1 hour, 24 hours in a day. We should change that mess to a better order.
Why stop there, let's change a circle from 360 degrees to 1 degree in a circle and divide it into tens.
Don't start me on the "am pm" thing, that's yet another stupid anglo hack that hopefully, is on the way out now
I work in a highly technical field; everything is complicated unnecessarily by imperial.
Are you sure? Because that picman guy said that peOpLe who dO tHingS use imperial exclusively!
Not sure why this bothers me so much... it's just the worst argumentation.
Apparently you don't actually do things.
You have a teaspoon. How to make a 16x (5 TBP + 1 tsp, which is 1/4 C + 1 TBSP + 1 tsp) batch or 100x (you can do the math) batch?
1mL water weighs 1g. The definition of a degree C is equally intuitive. What does imperial have?
more things become binary
Nah. You're telling me that things decided to completely skip decimal (i.e. metric) and move to binary? That's retarded.
You have a teaspoon. How to make a 16x (5 TBP + 1 tsp, which is 1/4 C + 1 TBSP + 1 tsp) batch or 100x (you can do the math) batch?
6 tsp in an ounce. You honestly don't need more precision than that. 2 2/3 oz for 16x, a pint for 100x.
Nah. You're telling me that things decided to completely skip decimal (i.e. metric) and move to binary? That's retarded.
You're advocating a system that hasn't caught on in 200 years and I'm the retarded one?
hasn't caught on
Have you been outside the US?
Metric threads suck
All true. Ty.
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