EPTDo you use Imperial or Metric? - Page 51
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Oiseaux
United States676 Posts
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Manex
Australia156 Posts
On December 09 2011 13:43 Keyboard Warrior wrote: please tell me where i can buy 0.3x0.3x3.6 meter wood anywhere in any country that uses the metric system, seriously any lumberyard in a metric country uses metric, i dont know why its so hard for people to understand that. as an engineer i need to know both because we use supplies imported from the US, but there is no reason all those components couldnt be manufactured in metric, would certainly make my life easier >< | ||
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paralleluniverse
4065 Posts
From a merits point of view, there is no benefit of imperial over metric. | ||
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ShatterZer0
United States1843 Posts
It's just where you live... I will not concede that Celsius is better than Fahrenheit when it comes to everyday usage however... It's nonsensical that a 0-33 system is preferred over a 0-100 system. In a scientific context sure, Celsius/Kelvin are a few magnitudes better, but in any other context it's just sub-par. (Celsius is also not particularly useful when it comes to cooking, because you have to go into decimals when you're trying to get exact internal temperatures.) | ||
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aseq
Netherlands3996 Posts
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CruelZeratul
Germany4588 Posts
On January 10 2012 22:23 ShatterZer0 wrote: Standard. Because I live in America and speaking in meters just makes me sound like a pompous asshole... It's just where you live... I will not concede that Celsius is better than Fahrenheit when it comes to everyday usage however... It's nonsensical that a 0-33 system is preferred over a 0-100 system. In a scientific context sure, Celsius/Kelvin are a few magnitudes better, but in any other context it's just sub-par. (Celsius is also not particularly useful when it comes to cooking, because you have to go into decimals when you're trying to get exact internal temperatures.) Where is the problem going into decimals with Celsius? Besides that, what are you cooking that requires X.125°C, lol? | ||
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
On January 10 2012 22:23 ShatterZer0 wrote: Standard. Because I live in America and speaking in meters just makes me sound like a pompous asshole... It's just where you live... I will not concede that Celsius is better than Fahrenheit when it comes to everyday usage however... It's nonsensical that a 0-33 system is preferred over a 0-100 system. In a scientific context sure, Celsius/Kelvin are a few magnitudes better, but in any other context it's just sub-par. (Celsius is also not particularly useful when it comes to cooking, because you have to go into decimals when you're trying to get exact internal temperatures.) implying when you put your oven to 400f it is never 399f in any part of the oven at any time. | ||
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StoRm_res
Switzerland891 Posts
On January 10 2012 22:23 ShatterZer0 wrote: Standard. Because I live in America and speaking in meters just makes me sound like a pompous asshole... It's just where you live... I will not concede that Celsius is better than Fahrenheit when it comes to everyday usage however... It's nonsensical that a 0-33 system is preferred over a 0-100 system. In a scientific context sure, Celsius/Kelvin are a few magnitudes better, but in any other context it's just sub-par. (Celsius is also not particularly useful when it comes to cooking, because you have to go into decimals when you're trying to get exact internal temperatures.) you obliviously never used Celsius then, nobody puts their oven on decimals, infact you can't control the temperatur more precise than plus minus 5 degrees. Standard temperature you use is between 150 and 220 degrees celcius. edit: for cooking celcius is way better, because water boils at 100 degrees | ||
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aseq
Netherlands3996 Posts
On January 10 2012 22:23 ShatterZer0 wrote: Standard. Because I live in America and speaking in meters just makes me sound like a pompous asshole... It's just where you live... I will not concede that Celsius is better than Fahrenheit when it comes to everyday usage however... It's nonsensical that a 0-33 system is preferred over a 0-100 system. In a scientific context sure, Celsius/Kelvin are a few magnitudes better, but in any other context it's just sub-par. (Celsius is also not particularly useful when it comes to cooking, because you have to go into decimals when you're trying to get exact internal temperatures.) You do know Fahrenheit isn't built around 0 and 100? The creator chose 0 as the temperature of brine; 30 as the melting point of water. Fahrenheit later recalibrated the scale so 32 is the melting point and 96 is the average body temperature because it allowed him to half the interval (64 degrees) 6 times. This stuff wouldn't do bad in a fairytale. | ||
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DenSkumle
Norway108 Posts
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ferencziffra
Bulgaria29 Posts
Besides being a decimal, i.e. mathematically logical, system, the Metric system has specific values for each of its units. E.g. 1 Metre = the length that light travels in vacuum for 1/299792458 of a second. Period. And so on. It's a specific value. Of course I use Metric and I don't see the point labeling any products with another system in existence today. In any circumstance. | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32132 Posts
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Dakk
Sweden572 Posts
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Auren
United States82 Posts
Sigh... no wonder Georgia has one of the worst public school systems in the country  | ||
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Ghostcom
Denmark4783 Posts
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DJFaqU
466 Posts
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Karok
Netherlands142 Posts
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SecondSandwich
United States319 Posts
On December 11 2011 05:51 SF-Fork wrote: How is F more accurate than C for cooking? I mean, in C you use 0 for freezing ater and 100 for boiling, while in F you use 32 and 212. I would say a 0-100 system is easier to measure than 32-212... EDIT: according to wiki the F scale is official only in the US, Cayman Islands and Belize. Now that's stuborness. I think he means that he prefers F because the difference between 1 degree is smaller in F than in C. Therefore you can more precisely measure the temperature. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18276 Posts
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. You have clearly never bought anything ever in the metric system. Firstly, how is 400ml worse than 12 ounces (disregarding the fact that liquids are sold in 33cl, half liter, or liter quantities in most of the world). Why the hell are you comparing metrics of volume and mass to eachother in the first place? Unless you mean fluid ounce, which just goes to show how stupid the whole system is, where you use the same word for two entirely different things (and don't try to tell me that 1 ounce is the same as 1 fluid ounce, because that clearly depends on the density of your liquid... in fact, googling shows it isn't even true for water, which just makes the whole system more retarded still). Secondly how is 5 meters the same as a 3dimensional space? If you want a piece of wood of 1x1x12 feet, that would be 30cm x 30 cm x 3.6m which seems like a very oddly shaped piece of wood, but whatever floats your boat. A plank, however can easily be measured in centimeters, for instance 1x10x200 for a 2 meter long plank of 10 cm wide and 1cm thick. In fact, we can easily switch to meters for the length if cm gets unhandy. As for halves. Half a liter and half a kilo are perfectly normal to say (in fact, 500 ml is really strange to say, even when reading a recipe that literally writes 500 ml, you still say half a liter: the conversion is automatic). The reason you don't use half a meter is because 50 cm is more intuitive. However, half a kilometer is entirely normal. In fact, the conversion between 500m and .5 km is one of the main strengths of the metric system. It's so easy to convert between the various orders of magnitude that you don't have to think about it. However, if I want to know how many gallons 15pints and 3 cups is, I am pretty damn fucked. PS. If the metric system is so bad, why didn't you copy over the british monetary system with delightful quantities such as sixpence and crowns? Oh wait, because the world has moved on and found better ways of spending our time than trying to figure out how many farthings go into a guinea. | ||
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mcc
Czech Republic4646 Posts
On January 10 2012 22:23 ShatterZer0 wrote: Standard. Because I live in America and speaking in meters just makes me sound like a pompous asshole... It's just where you live... I will not concede that Celsius is better than Fahrenheit when it comes to everyday usage however... It's nonsensical that a 0-33 system is preferred over a 0-100 system. In a scientific context sure, Celsius/Kelvin are a few magnitudes better, but in any other context it's just sub-par. (Celsius is also not particularly useful when it comes to cooking, because you have to go into decimals when you're trying to get exact internal temperatures.) 0-33, I am confused ? In Celsius 0 is temperature of water freezing, 100 is temperature of water boiling. Nice and simple and thanks to this fact makes more sense than Fahrenheit, otherwise they have no other pros or cons comparatively. What cons do you actually see in Celsius/Kelvin compared to Fahrenheit. As for cooking, why would you use fractions for cooking, are you making magical potions or just do you have a meth lab ? I never heard of anyone using fractions of Celsius for cooking. At best you use like whole degrees, but mostly around 5 degrees is precision enough. | ||
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