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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On January 11 2012 01:48 Rohan wrote: I was taught in both growing up, so now in my head I think of things as "around an inch an' a centimeter" Thanks British school system, you're so great! (Kill me) haha, I think we can all agree that a mix of the two is the least convenient option possible.  I'm 1m2feet22cm tall btw. | ||
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gondolin
France332 Posts
On January 11 2012 01:15 Jibba wrote: I believe the original kilogram item also weighs less than 1kg now, too. From what I remember the kilometre was supposed to be 1/40000 of the diameter of the earth. So around the french revolution, a pair of geographer traveled the world to mesure it. It's actually 40008km, but the precision is not that bad for the time it was first used (and it make the diameter easy to remember about). Of course nowadays we want a better precision so we define it in term of the light speed. Likewise the kilogram was defined so that 1m^3 of water weight 1000 kilograms. The *true* kilogram is defined as the weight of a sample keep in a museum in paris (Le bureau des poids et mesures, I should visit it somewhere) because the actual weight depends on the temperature of the water on so on. But this is not a good situation for modern precision requirements so some people are trying to count the number of atoms in a sample and use that to define the kilogram. | ||
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refmac_cys.cys
United States177 Posts
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DawN883
Sweden558 Posts
On December 09 2011 14:17 Lightswarm wrote: standard is the metric system fyi Yepp But people outside the US use imperial system to measure TV screens and such | ||
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Copymizer
Denmark2107 Posts
On January 11 2012 02:23 AceTenRyu wrote: Yepp But people outside the US use imperial system to measure TV screens and suchYep TV screen size is measured in inches as a world standard. So in conclusion to everything, it would be much easier if we all in the world used to the same system to measure what we want to measure but apparently we can't have it like that because of 1 superpower. It will stay like this but eventually the newer generation of americans will embrace the metric system and be able to use both | ||
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FallDownMarigold
United States3710 Posts
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HiTeK532
Canada171 Posts
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Apolo
Portugal1259 Posts
At least car manufacturers have agreed to use an universal charger plug for all electric cars. | ||
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
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CluEleSs_UK
United Kingdom583 Posts
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57 Corvette
Canada5941 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 11 2012 03:19 HiTeK532 wrote: I use a metric clock there's only 10 hours but 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute so it all works out. is there only 1 day in a month for your calendar? what happens when it's .1 months in a year how does that work out? | ||
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
On January 11 2012 03:21 jinorazi wrote: isn't the reason why USA still use imperial is because the commies(communist) use metric? it would be cost-prohibitive to use metric in our daily lives. you would have to change everything (road signs, markers, labels, instruction manuals, etc.). US uses metric where it counts though (physics, chemistry and other science classes). | ||
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Sphen5117
United States413 Posts
Ok, really I just measure everything with one unit: BTU's. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11811 Posts
On January 11 2012 06:04 semantics wrote: is there only 1 day in a month for your calendar? what happens when it's .1 months in a year how does that work out? You pretty much can't change the amount of days in a year, since those occur naturally. You could use a different way to measure time beyond days, but i don't really see a use in that. Until we somehow spread further then earth, a day and a year a pretty obvious and practical things to measure time in. These make some sense. I however don't necessarily think that a year needs to be an important unit of measurement (it is still useful, but it does not need to be especially prominent). Months and weeks are quite stupid. I think the simplest natural way would be to use a day as a standard unit, and divide that up into smaller, more useful parts for smaller amounts of time, and talk about 10, 50, 200 days when you need a longer amount of time. You can still use a year for seasons and so on, but i don't really think i needs to be prominent in other stuff that has no relation to weather like elections. Of course, you could use some other basic unit, but as a matter of fact our lives are naturally divided into days, and to a lesser extent years. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
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c0rn1
Germany146 Posts
On January 11 2012 03:13 FallDownMarigold wrote: I prefer imperial because it is much easier mathematically, and it just makes so much more sense intuitively. Why would anyone want to go through the pains of enduring multiples of ten? If you say so it must be so, eh? Then I please you to calculate the number of water molecules weighing 1 pound since it's easier in the imperial system. Or the approximate diameter of an atom in inches? Maybe you want to tell me how much mass the sun has in pounds? Or how much volume a pinte is in inches? Or maybe it is easier to calculate the number of molecules weighing 1 kg knowing that hydrogen weighs ~1g/mol and oxygen ~16g/mol? 1 mol = 6,022*10^23 The approximate diameter of an atom is 1 Angström 10^(-10)m. Or the sun has app. 2x 10^30kg mass. Or 1 litre is 1 dm³ or 10x10x10cm in volume. | ||
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chenchen
United States1136 Posts
It was very annoying. "Metric or Standard" . . lol standard . . . does anyone actually refer to it as standard? Like is that a historical term for it or something? | ||
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Abort Retry Fail
2636 Posts
Basing on history and structure, Id guess the hour system is imperial since 50 sec = 1 min, 60 min = 1 hr, 24 hr = 1 day, 7 days = 1 wk, 28/29/30/31 days = 1 month,12 mo = 1 year? I wonder how the metric system will handle with this? 100 mins to 1 hr? Has there been any suggestion to metricize time? | ||
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Sinensis
United States2513 Posts
 If you look next to someone's user name you can find their country, which should intuitively tell you which system they use. | ||
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