I use metric and I'm constantly confused by things such as ounces or the month/day/year format used on some sites. It makes it harder to tell how old information is. I've learned to approximate feet to a third of a meter, yards to about 0.9 of a meter and inches to 2.5 cm. Still annoying

oneofthem

Cayman Islands24199 Posts

October 16 2012 14:33 GMT

#1682

yea same. i refuse to deal with oz and liquid oz etc though. fuck that shit

Le Cheque Zo

Spain133 Posts

October 16 2012 14:35 GMT

#1683

By the way, there is no such thing as a metric or imperial measure of time.

Pantythief

Denmark657 Posts

October 16 2012 14:39 GMT

#1684

On October 16 2012 22:53 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:

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Your picture has nothing to do with DMY vs. MDY. Your picture is Imperial vs. Metric. And seeing as how your edit was a very long time ago, I assume that this was indeed the new, correct person you wanted to reply to o.O

no, I replied to the wrong person. I wrote that, lol

Incze

Romania2058 Posts

October 16 2012 14:40 GMT

#1685

I was referring to the way americans do it. They are the main (and almost only) users of both imperial measures and the mm/dd/yyyy system, so it feels natural to put them together

Chargelot

2275 Posts

October 16 2012 14:42 GMT

#1686

On October 16 2012 23:35 Le Cheque Zo wrote:
By the way, there is no such thing as a metric or imperial measure of time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45434 Posts

October 16 2012 14:42 GMT

#1687

On October 16 2012 23:39 Pantythief wrote:

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no, I replied to the wrong person. I wrote that, lol

Oh okay haha

oneofthem

Cayman Islands24199 Posts

October 16 2012 14:44 GMT

#1688

oh i didn't know lagrange founded the metric system. that alone should be reason to adopt the system.

Butterednuts

United States859 Posts

October 16 2012 14:56 GMT

#1689

Living in America, I use inches/feet/yards/miles as well as my entire family and friend-base that live in America. I wouldn't be opposed to using the metric system, it would just feel unnatural as I have grown up with this system for my entire life. It would probably take me a few years to adjust.

Rannasha

Netherlands2398 Posts

October 16 2012 15:14 GMT

#1690

On October 16 2012 22:48 Zoesan wrote:
In what way is imperial superior? It's not like every scientist already uses it, metric is also better for computer calculations (although some base2 would be even better). Metric is super easy as floating point.
mm = 10^-3m
km = 10^3m
etc.
Floating point is really really annoying with imperial.

Floating point numbers, as with any other numbers, are stored in base-2 in the computer. So there's nothing easier with multiplying something by 10^3 (1000) (to go from km to m) than multiplying something by 1760 (to go from mile to yard). Both computations take an equal amount of cpu cycles.

Now if we worked with a base-2 system, where there would be, say, 1024 meters in a kilometer, matters would be much easier for computers.

Coincidentally, the fact that 1024 and 1000 are fairly similar is the reason why harddisks never show up with their advertised size in the operating system.

Papulatus

United States669 Posts

October 16 2012 15:29 GMT

#1691

I really wish I didn't have to use English units. Jesus fuck thermodynamics problems get confusing in English units. Who the fuck came up with this god damn system?