EPTDo you use Imperial or Metric? - Page 22
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Hyperionnn
Turkey4968 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Metric all the way, MetRE KilometRE CentimetRE  | ||
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Terrafros
Netherlands194 Posts
If you had no knowledge of either and had the choice to pick one of the two systems, under the assumption that everyone else will use your choice standard as well, would you still pick the imperial units? I would not be able to! | ||
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DerNebel
Denmark648 Posts
2. Standard units are more practical and convenient. No one goes to the grocery to buy 400ml drink, instead, they buy it in 12 ounces. No one buys 5 meters of wood, instead, they buy it is 1x1x12, all in feet. I do. I never understood the idea of "Standard" as you call it. In Denmark "Standard"=Metric. The one big advantage that mettric has, is that it is super easy to convert anything. The OP even exemplifies it in the first post by converting half a meter to centimeters or millimeters. Feet to inches on the other hand... Also, the fact that you think that "Standard" sounds more natural is because you've used it all your life. Just remember all the weird things you've seen people do and say that for them is "Standard". | ||
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Hansibot
Denmark72 Posts
The only thing I can think of that's meassured not using metric is tv screens and computer moniters. | ||
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Gnosis
Scotland912 Posts
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Iranon
United States983 Posts
There really are no pros to the American system of units. The first thing mentioned in the OP doesn't make any sense, and the second thing is just silly ("In a country that uses standard units, most things you can buy are marked in standard units, which is convenient".) The only thing I always use metric units for is to eyeball small distances. I have no idea how long 3/16" is, but I can certainly look at something and tell you if it's 12mm or 14mm. I use liters (not litres) to measure water intake on camping/hiking trips, but not with any other liquids sitting around in my refrigerator. Obviously all science is done in metric units, but I've strayed away from science since college. Edit: also, calling American units "standard units" is so ridiculous it makes my ears bleed, but that's what they're called in the good ol' United States of Dumbfuckery. | ||
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Maxhster
Fiji473 Posts
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Divine-Sneaker
Denmark1225 Posts
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
On December 10 2011 01:24 Divine-Sneaker wrote: Metric is standard. this. The same with celsius. | ||
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Hoon
Brazil891 Posts
On December 09 2011 13:32 Keyboard Warrior wrote: Advantages of Standard 1. Standard goes more naturally with fractions - quarter of a pint, half foot, etc. Technically, you don't say half meter but rather 50 centimeters or 500 millimeters. 2. Standard units are more practical and convenient. No one goes to the grocery to buy 400ml drink, instead, they buy it in 12 ounces. No one buys 5 meters of wood, instead, they buy it is 1x1x12, all in feet. Fractions are bad, technically. Standard is nowhere near more practical than metric. I can't understand why the US don't adopt the metric system. It is much easier to use, better for calculations and the actual "Standard", since it is called "International System of Units". Every time they give you a problem in inches, foot, etc in an Engineering problem, you have to convert it to metric. Also, there is the Fahrenheit thing, which is even more stupid. In order to convert it to Kelvin, you have to do some stupid divisions and multiplications, while with Celsius, you just +273. You have to remember that the definition of feet, inches, etc came from the length of the King's body parts, which is already pretty bad. The metric system comes from the length, weight, etc of atoms and particles, which is unchangeable. | ||
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Drolla
United Kingdom389 Posts
But Metric = Worldwide Standard and Imperial = Closely related to American Standard (Imperial doesn't use yards for example). | ||
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Patriot.dlk
Sweden5462 Posts
However as a swede in my daily life there's 0 benefit for me to ever express anything in standard because it's just retarded if you didn't grow up with it. And also OP can you make a list of countries that uses standard because it's only the US. The very similar imperial system is used in like Canada and GB so yeah... edit: Yeah it's pretty weird to call it standard since the rest of the world has a standard system but I assume this is what your system is called. | ||
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Kurr
Canada2338 Posts
I remember one story of a building error caused by someone from one country using the metric system, transmitting his results to another person somewhere else who assumed they were in imperial units and managing to fuck something up. I think this was related to building a shuttle too if I recall correctly, so the people working on these things are supposed to be smart. I blame the first guy for not putting his units in but things like that should just never happen. It would be much simpler to teach a uniformed system to the entire world instead of having to adapt to ancient systems based on observation and not logic. | ||
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Evotroid
Hungary176 Posts
On December 09 2011 13:32 Keyboard Warrior wrote: 2. Standard units are more practical and convenient. No one goes to the grocery to buy 400ml drink, instead, they buy it in 12 ounces. No one buys 5 meters of wood, instead, they buy it is 1x1x12, all in feet. LOL We totally do dude:D really, here in Hungary (Central Europe) we buy wood in meters and milk in liters. Basically, we almost never use the US standard foots, ounces (LoL i don't even remember what was the changing number for that), really, like maybe the mechanical engineers use it, but for example, our architects also use the metric and at least here metric is the standard, and the foot-inch-ounche what not is the specialty unit. | ||
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Yorke
England881 Posts
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Newbistic
China2912 Posts
On December 10 2011 01:33 Kurr wrote: The fact that the Imperial system still persists in some countries is a shame. It's a completely ridiculous system when compared to a logical system such as the metric one. There is no good reason to teach it or use it anymore. People really need to adapt and stop living in the dark ages. I remember one story of a building error caused by someone from one country using the metric system, transmitting his results to another person somewhere else who assumed they were in imperial units and managing to fuck something up. I think this was related to building a shuttle too if I recall correctly, so the people working on these things are supposed to be smart. I blame the first guy for not putting his units in but things like that should just never happen. It would be much simpler to teach a uniformed system to the entire world instead of having to adapt to ancient systems based on observation and not logic. Logic is overrated. | ||
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spinesheath
Germany8679 Posts
On December 10 2011 01:28 Hoon wrote: Also, there is the Fahrenheit thing, which is even more stupid. In order to convert it to Kelvin, you have to do some stupid divisions and multiplications, while with Celsius, you just +273. That is because Kelvin is just the Celsius scale with 0 shifted to the point of absolute 0. It could just as well be a shifted Fahrenheit scale and be just as good. Celsius vs Fahrenheit: none is really better, but I vote for Celsius cuz that's what I am used to. Kelvin is slightly better, and I wouldn't mind everyone using Kelvin. For casually talking about weather we would probably drop the 200/300 part because it would usually be obvious, and that's that. 10 also isn't that great of a base btw. 10 is a product of 2 different primes. 16 is much better, 8 isn't too good (2^2^2 is superior to 2^3), 2 produces too many digits for humans. 12 is no better than 10 though. standard Made my day. | ||
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Patriot.dlk
Sweden5462 Posts
United States customary units Not the same as imperial as a few here seems to believe (all though close enough) but it looks bad when you correct him with a another incorrectness. Also standard could be a nickname for what you use as standard, pretty easy to grasp imo | ||
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