Imperial vs. Metric

[Momiji]

I wonder how many people would want a liter of cassette tapes...

[Croyles]

hehehee, pound mass and pound foot 8)

The thing that annoys me the most about metric is that it's completely incompatible with other number systems. All those easy conversions go right out the window when you stop working with base-10.

The thing that annoys me secondmost is how conceited everyone that uses metric seems to be.

What a wonderfully conceited post

[Denmark]

Because we use a decimal (base 10) number system, it would follow that we should use a uniform, base 10 unit system. Everything in metric is in base 10 (except time). Imperial units? You've got units that aren't uniform at all over the whole scope of different units.

In metric, the numbers are nicer, which makes for faster calculations. Increasing speed of calculation increases efficiency and decreases cost.

tl;<x>dr engineers use metric because it's better.

[Moon Rabbits]

I can only do math and physics problems in metric units. I like to bake using imperial units - I also like to express my height and weight in imperial units.

I measure pot in a mixture of both metric and imperial


Overall I prefer metric.

[Yar]

I wonder how many people would want a liter of cassette tapes...

That Will it Blend guy might like video-cassette milkshakes thnxuvrymuch.

[Madame Adequate]

Metric for science.

Imperial for day-to-day.

I'm sorry but using cm to measure height and kilograms to measure weight is the height of European.

[blackmage_nuke]

one thing i dont like about metric is it skips from teeny tiny cenimeters to great big 3+ft meters shouldent there be somthing in there i mean WTF!! america is pretty much the king of all the world anyways

Does working with 3 digits really put such a strain on your brain cells? And you forget China

The thing that annoys me secondmost is how conceited everyone that uses metric seems to be.

That hasn't stopped you using Firefox or Macs.

I rofl with agreement

if you arrange them in a cube, then that's a liter, as well.

And if you made the cube out of water it would have a 1kg mass

[rubah]

And if you heated it up with 1 kilojoule of heat, it would gain one degree kelvin.

(of course the same is true for one pound of water with 1 Btu for one degree rankine)

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

one thing i dont like about metric is it skips from teeny tiny cenimeters to great big 3+ft meters shouldent there be somthing in there i mean WTF!! america is pretty much the king of all the world anyways

lol, there is units in between though they are rarely used. There are a a 100 cm in a 1m and a 10 dm (decimetres) in 1m.

[Denmark]

Metric for science.

Imperial for day-to-day.

I'm sorry but using cm to measure height and kilograms to measure weight is the height of European.

kg = mass
Newtons = weight

:rolleyes2

Also I meant to say earlier, conversion between the Imperial and Metric is easy with simple multiplication.