EPTDo you use Imperial or Metric? - Page 46
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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BM_Rawbertson
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Telcontar
United Kingdom16710 Posts
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Randomaccount#77123
United States5003 Posts
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Icky
Denmark95 Posts
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. Technically you might not say half a meter, but many do in actual conversation. As for two, I really don't follow. Why is it better to buy 12 ounces of something than 400ml? Not that you can get 400 ml of milk, at least not in Denmark. The same is true of wood. Why is it more natural to buy it in feet? This has to do with the system you have grown up with or gotten comfortable with, not which one is objectively more natural. Personally, I use metric for everything, because that's what I understand best and what I grew up with. I find any other system bewildering, to say the least. | ||
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Cereb
Denmark3388 Posts
On December 11 2011 06:04 LordAben wrote: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/k5FiL.jpg) Personally i was raised up using the standard measurements but after taking the time to understand the metric system, it simply just makes more sense to use it, and does not take long to learn.Omfg that picture is priceless :D Thanks for sharing  Also fun fact for people talking about temperature: It has actually been researched that +10 degrees of celcius and below is not meassured by the regular receptors of your body but of the receptors that meassure pain... Of course we as humans usually wear cloths so this is assuming your skin is naked  | ||
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Syth
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-30 degrees: Dead in 20 seconds -20 degrees: Dead in 30 seconds -10 degrees: Dead in 40 seconds 0 degrees: Survivable in the belly of a recently deceased animal 10 degrees: Survivable with 20kgs of clothing 20 degrees: Good weather 30 degrees: Sweaty and uncomfortable 40 degrees: Pile of ash I dislike extremes in weather | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
On December 12 2011 01:27 Syth wrote: -40 degrees: Dead in 10 seconds -30 degrees: Dead in 20 seconds -20 degrees: Dead in 30 seconds -10 degrees: Dead in 40 seconds 0 degrees: Survivable in the belly of a recently deceased animal 10 degrees: Survivable with 20kgs of clothing 20 degrees: Good weather 30 degrees: Sweaty and uncomfortable 40 degrees: Pile of ash I dislike extremes in weather You are just joking, or you mean this at least a little seriously? You can survive 0 while naked for hours, if not days, if you are moving. Not sure about the deeper temperures while naked, but -20 is perfectly fine when you have three layers of clothes. I regularly walk in negative temperatures just in T-shirt and light pants mainly when walking uphill with a backpack and no wind. edit: user instead of sure, one of my best typos ever | ||
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DreamChaser
1649 Posts
On December 10 2011 21:17 SinCitta wrote: I wonder if American students have more problems with unit conversions/are worse in (basic) math/physics/... overall compared globally because of their system. Or if they actually benefit because they learn how arbitrary unit lengths can be and doesn't need to be as simple as metric (but looking at this thread, some do not even learn both systems at all). For those that say 12-base makes more sense than 10-base, in which field would this be the case? I understand how power of twos are quite useful today, but 12-base? The only thing I can think of is the time in hours. Still, language/customs are not always logical and/or make it easy to learn math and yet seem so natural for native speakers. For example, in the German language, the last digit is pronounced before the second last digit, so 123 is "einhundertdreiundzwanzig" which would be "onehundred-three-twenty". In the French language, I find it mind-boggling how 80 is quatre-vingt and every number above 80 under 100 is quatre-vingt + something, for example 96 is quatre-vingt-seize. No learning metric was a little weird at first. But honestly the metric system is pretty simple and if a High School student cant figure out the metric system they have more problems than physics. | ||
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Abort Retry Fail
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MutantGenepool
Australia115 Posts
Being a mechanic can be such a pain with both systems. It would be a lot cheaper on the wallet if we didn't need to buy two sets of spanners and sockets etc, AND it would be a hellovalot lighter to cart around. Go metric pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease. | ||
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pyrogenetix
China5098 Posts
This right here. | ||
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XForce3
Canada45 Posts
On December 12 2011 01:27 Syth wrote: -40 degrees: Dead in 10 seconds -30 degrees: Dead in 20 seconds -20 degrees: Dead in 30 seconds -10 degrees: Dead in 40 seconds 0 degrees: Survivable in the belly of a recently deceased animal 10 degrees: Survivable with 20kgs of clothing 20 degrees: Good weather 30 degrees: Sweaty and uncomfortable 40 degrees: Pile of ash I dislike extremes in weather I really hope you're over exaggerating, or you're from a very warm part of the world and never seen 0 degree centigrade weather | ||
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
That pic is priceless, and very true  | ||
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gosuMalicE
Canada676 Posts
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
On January 06 2012 17:34 XForce3 wrote: I really hope you're over exaggerating, or you're from a very warm part of the world and never seen 0 degree centigrade weather Either you're joking or you accidentally set your country to Canada when you really live in Romania | ||
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supdubdup
United States916 Posts
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yosisoy
Israel202 Posts
In case you didn't understand - I use metric. | ||
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decemvre
Romania639 Posts
"Technically, you don't say half meter but rather 50 centimeters or 500 millimeters." "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. " | ||
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Silvanel
Poland4751 Posts
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