I prefer it but I'm used to both now. I know I'll have to keep both sets of tools the rest of my life. Let's just not add another system.
I'm kind of dumb in math. So anything when there's a fraction is confusing as all living hell to me. Give me a 14 mm, that's pretty straightforward.
Thanks for asking where the 14 is and not the 10. Who knows where that one is.
I would ask for the 10 if I was still driving a Subaru.
This is why I have 7 metric socket sets-i keep losing the 10mm.
Amazon sells a 24 piece socket set that every socket is a 10mm.
I still prefer ounces and pounds and miles, but I'm a convert for mm since inch fractions makes me have to stop what I'm working on and think about a visual reference to the size. With mm cm just move the decimal.
For some things, it is good. Small distances, the volume of liquid and small weights are all good. For other things, it sucks. A lot of country roads were built one mile apart, it would be ridiculous to change that to KM, so keep miles for driving. Also, 60 mph is very easy to figure out how many minutes until your destination when it is 1 mile per minute. 100 km/h isn't as straight forward when something is 68 km until the destination.
For heavier weights, I guess it is easier if you're calculating something like thrust/yields for chemical reactions, but anyone who is used to pounds knows instantly that someone who weighs 250 lbs is a pretty big fucker. 113.4 kg, 87 kg. That doesn't seem like as big of a difference in weight as 250 lbs is to 191.8 lbs.
I do agree on miles being better than kilometers.
One liquid that is always better in gallons is gasoline. A larger unit of liquid means more is being measured and sold, so there is some wiggle room for a discount. The real benefit is figuring out your fuel usage, being measured in miles per gallon. Straight forward. I looked up what they use for liters and km, it is L/100 km. That seems backwards. I don't want to know how many units of fuel are needed for some arbitrary distance, I want to know how far I can get off of each unit.
I also agree.
How? You know how long it takes me to drive 25 kilometers? 25 minutes. Quick how many yards in a mile? Dont google it motherfuckter. How many metres in a kilometer? 1000.
Muricans coping with their inferior system that is based on the metric system .
It's fine that it exists but it's a fundamentally inhuman system. It's just as arbitrary at its base as English
GO back to reddit you faggot this is reddit tier shitposting.
Not everything has to be serious, kike
All you metric fags are all office people. Can't do fractions? Seriously they are all divisible by two, how fucking hard is that but carrying 3 decimals in your calcs is no biggie, wtf is wrong with you people.
I've spent the past three hours converting fractions of inches to decimals of inches to millimeters because this fucking client can't decide what he wants to use. I wish we had metric.
The Customary system is made to fit men. My thumb is an inch wide. My foot is approximately a foot long. From the tip of my nose to the tip of my finger is a yard. A pace is 30 inches, 2.5 feet. 1000 double paces is 5000 feet, the Roman mile, which is approximately a modern mile. A league (3 miles) is how far a man walks in an hour. Tolkien and Cicero measured distance in miles. It is a grounded system with a long history.
If you are grinding through a bunch of calculations on paper, metric is good. That's where the base-10 comes in handy. Other than that, metric is just worse.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSJXC6_qQ8
If God wanted us to use the metric system then Jesus would have had ten apostles.
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