Why still using the imperial system? : memes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

There are (huge) costs to retooling production to move from imperial to metric. Even if a company wanted to make that move they'd have to transition in phases and will likely end up with additional equipment to maintain. There's also significant training for workers (who will likely commit errors in the beginning) which will impact production. And what happens to the old equipment? I'd guess a significant portion of that would end up getting scrapped and landfilled.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Perhaps I'm biased, but sometimes it's easier to work in fractions. Also, setting room temp is objectively better in F. I can tell the difference between 74 and 75. That said, I'm also a scientist so I'm permitted these opinions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

No, you are not permitted these decisions because you are something.

Its still bias

[+] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There are 8000 linguistic systems in use today, about 90 calendars, a few hundred legal systems, a few hundred monetary systems, but Redditors fume at the thought that Planet Earth uses >1 convention for weights and distances

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I really like Farenheit system for temperatures. 0 is really cold and 100 is really hot, but both survivable. It's a human-centric system.

0C is the temperature that water freezes, which is good but temperatures more often go negative with that system. 100C is boiling so you'd be dead.

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 7 months ago (13 children)

I've read that it is more easily divisible than metric.

Divide a meter by 3 or 4 and get ugly numbers but a foot or yard divide by 3 or 4 quite cleanly. And so on.

Depending on your application this can be very helpful.

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[+] [email protected] -24 points 7 months ago (22 children)

It's easier for handling real things.

Try doing woodwork in feet and inches for a day. Try it in metric for a day. You'll see what I mean.

It was crafted for the human-scale, whereas metric was worked out on paper by French philosophers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Woodworking, sure. You have a piece of wood 2' 5 5/8“ long that you need to cut into quarters. Can you calculate that in your head? Metric is SOOOO much easier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

here's how i did: 2'/4=6", 5 5/8"/4=1 13/32, so it's 7 13/32"

smart to pick a prime numerator!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Alternatively, the same measurement is 752.5mm / 4 = 188.1mm, to a practical number of significant figures. No convertions between feet and inches (or ridiculous fractions of inches), and only one calculation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes but my measuring tape actually has 32nds on it. The meter side only has whole divisions, not tenth graduations.

So the sae “ridiculous fraction” is a measurement I can easily make with tools I have on hand to the tools own limit of precision and double check in my head with five seconds of fifth grade level mathematics while the metric one can’t be actually measured without a set of calipers and honestly would merit long division or a calculator to double check and still needs rounding off a vile eighth of millimeter to hit what is in your own words “a practical number of significant figures”.

Imma throw something out there and I hope the earnest admission that I can’t divide 752.5 by four in my head with the level of confidence required to cut materials by is enough to recognize it not as an attack but as a real grasp at understanding:

People who make posts like yours either don’t measure things in any meaningful way (cutting, dividing, scribing lines, etc) or don’t know how to work with fractions.

Like I said: it’s not an attack, I just can’t see how someone would suggest that the metric equivalent to 13/32 is easier to work with unless they didn’t intend to actually measure it or couldn’t do fractions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I like imperial for big things. like you said it's easier. For small things like 3d printing and such I prefer metric (basically anything with increments smaller than 1/16"). It just depends on what scale you need to work on.

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