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AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Getting these two after eachother is fate

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gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Metric is great for scientists in a lab with equipment to measure things.

Imperial was created during a time when peasants in the middle of nowhere needed to measure something “close enough” to trade with others, even without tools or measuring equipment, which was only owned by scribes and other members of the nobility.

This is why all imperial length measurements relate to parts of the body and why all volume and weight measurements relate to containers that were commonly used to store the thing you’re measuring (a bushel of grain, for example).

The US agreed to switch to the metric system centuries ago, but the ship carrying the official units sank on the way over.

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- lauha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Metric is great for scientists in a lab with equipment to measure things.
  
  Metric is just as great for everyday life as imperial units.
  
  Also, a foot can be divided equally into 2, 3, 4, or 6 equally-sized pieces without resorting to estimation or irrational numbers; a meter cannot.
  
  While I agree in principle, I also enjoy the chaos that imperial system causes when you try adding up 1 1/8 inches + 5 27/32 inches + 7 3/64 inches instead of just using decimal numbers.
  
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  - surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Metric is just as great for everyday life as imperial units.
    
    This is what the metricians say to feel better about themselves, but they never mean it.
    
    “Oh yes, I’ll have a 236.588 milliliters of tea, thank you for offering”
    
    “The kids are out playing in the back 0.914 meters”
    
    “Doctor, I think I broke my left 30.48 centimeters”
    
    Do you see how silly you would sound if you didn’t use imperial?
    
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  - aMockTie@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    1 1/8 inches + 5 27/32 inches + 7 3/16 inches
    
    1/8 = 4/32 3/16 = 6/32 4 + 6 + 27 = 37 37/32 = 1 5/32 1 + 5 + 7 + 1 = 14 Total: 14 5/32
    
    I wouldn’t call it chaos, it’s a straightforward algorithm:
    
    Identify the largest denominator
    
    Multiply each other fraction by [largest denominator divided by current fraction’s denominator]
    
    Determine the sum of every numerator
    
    Divide and simplify the number if necessary
    
    Determine the sum of the integers, including any integers added in the previous step
    
    This works for every measurement because the denominator is always a power of 2.
    
    With that said I absolutely prefer metric.
    
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  - JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Having done my share of automotive and carpentry work, I’ve never in my life had to go down to 64ths. 32nds is the smallest fraction I’ve ever had to use and the amount of times I’ve had to get that small could probably be counted on one hand.
    
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  - JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    If someone were adding those figures they would switch to decimal. I built furniture for 2 years, 64ths are almost never used over thousands of an inch. If you need to be finer than 32nds you use thou. And that pretty much only for wood. Machine shop I worked in used thou exclusively.
    
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  - taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Wheeeeeeee fractions!
    
    But after multiplying, 8 + 54 + 3 over 64 is just clean fun, you end up with 14 1/64 inches and wanna die because you accidentally cut the material at 14 inches and now your whole day is ruined.
    
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  - wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s easy, 14 5/32
    
    (Yes, I did it in my head. Yes, I am chaos)
    
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Chaos? Just normalize to a denominator of 32 and it’s simple
    
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- Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The last bit of rationalizing is hilarious .
  
  We can figure out what 70% of a meter is.
  
  Good luck with your peasant system
  
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  - Omnipitaph@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Its crazy how many people upvoted this comment. Didn’t realize there was so much anti-american sentiment on this platform. I get the government is shit, but insulting the general population just kinda makes you out as an ass.
    
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- im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Metric allows you to convert between length volume and mass in your head. Someone smarter than me could probably take a reasonable estimate of how long a kettle will take to boil just by knowing it’s wattage and estimating its volume.
  
  You’re right that “pounds” may have e been a practical measurement back when people didn’t have calibrated and everyone’s hand weighed a pound. However, that advantage ceased once everyone standardised those measurements.
  
  A metre is equally divisible by 50, 25, 20, 10, 5, and 2. There arr numerous advantages to a base 10 system.
  
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- TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “Decimalized currency is great for all those labcoats, but for us regular ol’ normal folk, it’s much easier to use real, easily divisible livres, which can be divided into 20 sous and subsequently into 12 deniers.”
  
  “In fact, imperial is so great because duodecimal invites so much divisibility! What’s that? You’re saying it goes 12 –> 3 –> 1760 for length, 16 –> 2000 for units of mass, that and units of volume aren’t even consistently multiples of 4, and that pounds, short tons aren’t cleanly divisible by 3? And that not a single unit of volume is divisible by three unless you bring it down to the level of teaspoons?”
  
  “‘Why not just switch to a fully duodecimal system if divisibility is so important to you’, you ask? Well fuck you, a foot is about as long specifically as my forearm, and there’s no way my poor, emaciated monkey brain would ever have found something similar to latch onto with SI units. ‘How many square inches is a 300 x 300 foot room?’, you ask? Well fuck you again.”
  
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  - PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
    
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  - Darkmuch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I hate imperial. But I do think it would be neat if we had also changed our common numeral system to base 12 when making metric. Dividing by 3 and 4 is WAY more common than dividing by 5.
    
    But no way that would happen unless we had a massive linguistic shift occur as well. Base 10 is too rooted in our culture.
    
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    'How many square inches is a ~~30 x~~ 30-foot diameter room?
    
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- Morotsgubbe@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What do you mean you can not divide a meter without estimations or irrational numbers? Do you mean fractions or decimal? 1m/3=3.33… dm ( repeating, which means it is a rational fraction)
  
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- AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Every country used a system based off body parts or similarly easy-to-measure parts. When the metric system was invented, most of them switched because it was the logic thing to do. Some just decided that the dumb system was better who knows why.
  
  Spain adopted the metric system in 1852 and by the time, they weren’t the most advanced country.
  
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  - adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Spain adopted the metric system in 1852 and by the time, they weren’t the most advanced country
    
    perhaps when the u.s. finally reaches the level of 1852 spain, americans will switch too.
    
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- SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Also, US Customary units share many of the same terms as Imperial, but the actual quantities differ.
  
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- queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s why duodecimal is superior to decimal.
  
  Instead of converting to metric, we should convert our entire numerical system to be base 12.
  
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- save_the_humans@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  So pounds can be either a mass or a force, or context dependent, or a slug might be the unit for mass derived from the pound force. The foot pound force is a unit for energy.
  
  Honestly the system shouldn’t exist.
  
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- Schemen110676@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What? Of course you ca split a METER into smaller pieces.
  
  500, 330, 250 and 115mm
  
  Easy as a pie.
  
  And no one is its right mind is actually using thirds. There is no way you can actually use thirds in anything but as an approximation
  
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spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Violet

Huh. I must have missed this book in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

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- cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  How unfortunate
  
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- Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Did she undelete her account?
  
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huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
True except for calorie. Metric typically uses Joules, which is good because it’s just the product of force (N) and distance units (m), instead of requiring a conversion factor.

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- SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If by “metric system,” you mean SI. But then, SI uses m³ for volume, not litres. The author didn’t specify which metric system, so this could be valid.
  
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    1m3 = 1 kiloliter so maybe they use both
    
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Wild Thing by Josh Bazell, in case anyone was wondering what book that is.

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lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Why call Imperial Units the American system? It’s the British Empire’s fault. And the UK still uses it. Like so much they say weird ass shit like “I weigh 12 stones.”

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- Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Doesnt the UK use a mix of both? Same as Canada?
  
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- zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  US Customary Units and Imperial Units are not 100% the same, so three former the American system makes sense.
  
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- tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The UK is metrifing. But it takes time to make these shifts. Most hospitals will ask for weight in kg but usually have a calculator available. Charts and information leaflets have kg. Lift weight limits are in kg (usually then represend by people) Baby’s weight is given in grams but usually the next question is what’s that in old money. So the systems are all in kg but mentally we are in stones.
  
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heh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My favourite part of the metric system is that it it’s water weight being 1-1 with volume; measuring liquids is super easy with a scale.

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- Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Liquids as in water specifically and not other liquids.
  
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  - heh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Nah, it’s still good for others if you know the relative density.
    
    Vodka for example, at roughly 0.9x works. Most other liquids are somewhere just above 1 so it is still pretty accurate.
    
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  - redballooon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It still works fine for most liquids used for cooking and baking.
    
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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
When I learned the consistency (synergy?) between metric measures, I thought that was so amazing.

In the olden days sciencey types and engineers kept fact books listing such relations. They had a specific name that escapes me.

Before handheld calculators, they also kept books of pre-calculated mathematical operations, so they were used to having numbers books around.

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- historicaldocuments@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  In the olden days sciencey types and engineers kept fact books listing such relations. They had a specific name that escapes me.
  
  Likely a “CRC”: CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, which is probably the same book as the pre-calculated mathematical operations you mentioned. It has a lot of good mathematical stuff in it such as basic formulas, trig functions, log tables, integral and differential functions, and formulas up through around Fourier analysis.
  
  If we were doing that thought exercise where you can take a “go bag” back in time to build science up more quickly, a CRC and a slide rule would probably be in mine. I’d probably throw in a prism and as compact of a microscope that uses a mirror as a light source as I could get away with; both for showing small stuff living in water and for showing what couldn’t be manufactured yet (depending on when I went back). I wouldn’t waste space in the bag for anything dealing with the imperial system.
  
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- kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “Better still learn mental math, you won’t always have an answer book in your pocket!” — 1500’s teachers
  
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W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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BitUnWise@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
One mole of hydrogen-1 isn’t 1 gram because of the binding energy of protons and neutrons. One mole of hydrogen-1 is about 1.008g

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- sumsinj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You know that water being exactly 1kg and 1l is specific to one pressure and temperature combination?
  
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  - BitUnWise@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Mole is a number of particles, not a volume. A mole of hydrogen-1 will always have the same mass regardless of temperature or pressure
    
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- AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s a bakers mole.
  
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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
a gallon of water boils in 10 minutes on a whirlpool electric range in turbo mode

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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Wait, no, this isn’t really correct.

Metric is the first part, but it is also the second part. The entire point of imperial units is that they ARE humanistically intuitive measurements.

Science = metric, relatable = imperial.

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- BambiDiego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Metric is very relatable if you just, use it, just like imperial.
  
  The only difference is metric is also easy to scale up or down, imperial is pure “fee-fees”
  
  Your implication that metric is not humanistically intuitive is just bonkers when you consider 99.125% of the developed world just uses metric for their every day, always, with no issue.
  
  Germans, Koreans, and Indians aren’t suddenly going “oh no! I can’t measure these shoes and these plates! I only have SCIENCE numbers, not BaldEagleBananaBurgerFreedom™ numbers!”
  
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  - SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    First off, I want to point out that imperial measurements originated in Europe, not the US. No need to get upset about where the standards are from or who use them, we aren’t talking about that, as I want to eliminate patriotism and tribalism, and isolate the subject to just the differences between the measurements.
    
    Secondly, whether or not something is used commonly or not doesn’t define if something is humanistically intuitive. And I think you misunderstood what I meant by that, anyway, and might be twisting my words away from their original meaning, by using those specific words wrongly in a strawman fallacy, thus making two blind jumps away from my argument and essentially arguing against something that I never really said, which is a waste of both of our time and energy.
    
    I’m saying that the units are human-intuition centric first, not other reference point first.
    
    If you base your 0-100 measurement of temperature around the freezing and boiling points of water, that’s fantastic, but it’s significantly less relevant for what temperature it is outside. Sure, you can divide and multiply it well and it’s a range that’s relevant to water.
    
    But the 0-100 being based around what temperatures span from really cold to really hot to humans (and temperate zones where most humans exist), you’ve created a unit that is significantly more relevant to weather and how it feels and affects us. People who use Fahrenheit basically never, ever use decimals for weather or cooking food, because those are the things that most people REALLY do day to day.
    
    They’re just different philosophies in how to measure stuff, and a lot of people use both at will, because we like to just use the best thing for the job. If people younger than me want to use all metric or all imperial, cool, I don’t give a shit, they’re all available. Whining about units is bizarre. Like, just don’t use them if you can’t be flexible. It’s like language: the person who speaks the most language wins because they understand the differences, pros, and cons. Whereas the person who only understands one language is limited in perspective and understanding, and when that person rages about other standards, they look ridiculous.
    
    Speak your language, if it works, fantastic. But don’t piss over here because you don’t understand the differences. I’m just trying to get through life and I bet you are, too. If you want the truly weird conversions, though, go between imperial and metric ;) those are awesome.
    
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- rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Only if you’re used to it.
  
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  - SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Like, I’m at a shop right now, and outside the window are some scooters.
    
    How many scooters?
    
    I think in units of scooters, not pieces of metal in scooter shape that add up to a volume of mass and energy. Because that’s not what I’m thinking about right now, I just see six scooters, and you instantly know that there are six scooters.
    
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  - SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I expanded my comment, but, basically, you can get used to any system. Humans are incredibly adaptable.
    
    But for the same reason we’re bad at conceptualizing how rich a trillionaire really is, metric may not be better than imperial. Or, maybe imperial is the reason we’re bad at conceptualizing! I haven’t thought about that before! But it’s an interesting idea!
    
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- olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  We have also units in metric, except it’s always the same ones. Horse is around 2m and a small banana is 15cm, a human foot in around 30cm.
  
  You can measure the parts of your body to get to the same point reference pretty fast and it’s very relatable when you live in a non-imperial country.
  
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    How much is a kilohorse
    
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- Schemen110676@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Where is the world is Fahrenheit relatable?
  
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  - SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Temp ranges 0-100 in real life in temperate, North America.
    
    What do they span in Celsius?
    
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ReCursing@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I can’t remember what book this was from, it was a medical thriller about an ex-con in witness protection IIRC. I think it also includes him sending an intern to check on “the LD50 of falling out of a window”

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- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  yeah I need 100 interns and we gotta keep raising the window until half of them die when we chuck 'em out. In this proposal to the irb, we posit that no harm is done to live animals [irb cod of conduct §§121.74-121.76] cause they’re interns
  
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- Aedis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  mL and cc are the same thing.
  
  1 Liter is equal to 1dm³ (which no one uses really but it doesn’t matter since the equivalency is at mL = cc
  
  a grain of rice is about 0.02 gr so idk where you got that from. Weights were manufactured originally as was the meter (platinum cylinder and bar respectively, the originals are still in a museum in Paris)
  
  weight is now based off the Planck constant and the meter is based off the speed of light. (2019)
  
  Calorie, while metric is not an SI unit, that would be the joule.
  
  the SI uses a hodgepodge of units and not all metric, they are however, all based off of natural constants.
  
  A yard is just as arbitrary as anything else, it was a rod made somewhere around the 1500’s and was kept in London. Nowadays much like any other imperial unit, the sizes are based off their metric counterparts. is 1yd = 0.9144m exactly.
  
  Metric time has been attempted (1000 ticks in a day) didn’t work super well. But like I said theres a ton of non metric units in the SI.
  
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  - rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Seconds are SI, I believe, and it makes perfect sense to talk milliseconds, kiloseconds, etc.
    
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- SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  of course a liter isn’t 1 cubic meter. it’s 1000cc, while a cubic meter is 1,000,000cc. that’s just math.
  
  There’s only one definition of million, because “mil” means thousandth.
  
  Also, the metric system generally uses Joules rather than calories. A Joule is the energy it takes to exert a force of 1 Newtons over the distance of 1 meter. An example would be lifting about 102 grams up 1 meter.
  
  These non-metric units that science uses all the time are conveniences based on constants we can measure or estimate. An AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun. A sol is the time it takes for Mars to rotate once about its axis. There’s nothing wrong with making up constants that make your numbers easier to explain.
  
  While our calendar isn’t a base-10 system, the second is defined by the metric system and that’s the definition everyone uses.
  
  While I’m American, and I’m used to feet, inches, pounds, miles, gallons, and cups, it is easy to understand the convenience of the Metric system. How many inches are in a mile? Well, it’s 5280 feet, and there are 12 inches in a foot, so that means there’s 63,360 inches in a mile. For the record, it’s easier to figure how many centimeters are in a mile.
  
  A mile is officially defined as 1609.344 meters, so all you have to do is multiply by 100. There are 160,934.4 centimeters in a mile. There are 100,000 centimeters in a kilometer.
  
  Pounds, by the way, are a unit of force, not mass. Or rather, they used to be. So now they’re a unit of mass, but you can still refer to pounds of force. So a pound of force is the force of gravity on a one pound mass. To quote Wikipedia,
  
  Note, however, unlike the other systems the force unit is not equal to the mass unit multiplied by the acceleration unit[11]—the use of Newton’s second law, F = m ⋅ a, requires another factor, gc, usually taken to be 32.174049 (lb⋅ft)/(lbf⋅s2).
  
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  Yikes. The metric system is certainly better.
  
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    million
    
    Now I’m thinking about the tiniest cats, thanks.
    
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- theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They probably made the meter about a yard because that’s roughly 1 stride (left step right step)
  
  Which is what’s really cool about imperial. It’s very human, for length and temperature at least. A mile is about a 20 minute walk, 0-100 degrees is about the range most people can endure with reasonable comfort, and I have no idea what the volume measurements are based on. 1 cup is what a small child drinks in a sitting, a quart is more than a normal adult drinks, and teaspoons/tablespoons are really only useful in baking, and even then it’s only sometimes
  
  They must’ve had really weird table wear when they standardized imperial
  
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  - arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    the meter was originally defined to be one 10,000-th of the distance from the equator to the north pole, along the meridian that passes through Paris
    
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  - leftascenter@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The mile is based on roman steps originally : 1000 steps.
    
    The yard was an arm’s length.
    
    Fahrenheit 0 is pure invention. 100 was body temp.
    
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  - Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    A kilometer is about a 15 minute walk (meaning you can walk ca 4 km in one hour - actually a bit less, avg walking speed is around 3.6km/h, but that is so very much individual that it has the same usability as your mile in 20 minutes).
    
    0 and 100 °C is where water changes between frozen/liquid/vapor (and that does NOT change, while “reasonable comfort” is very much dependent on humiditiy - if it’s close to 0° outside, expect slippery roads. 0 and 100 Fahrenheit do tell you fuck all about what to expect outside regarding road conditions without extra knowledge.) Default room temperature is around 22°C, smack in the middle of the personal preference normally being around 20-25°. Having the same scale in mind, everything above 30°C is pretty warm, with 42° the current heat record in Austria, set this year. 60° is the temperature where proteins start to denature a.k.a getting burnt, pretty much 2/3 of the way to water vapor.
    
    One liter is the volume that fits in a 10x10x10 cm cube, just as a milliliter is the volume of a 1x1x1 cm cube (because 10x10x10=1000, and a milliliter is a thousand of a liter). we still use tea/tablespoons in many cooking recipes tho (or if you want, you can use 5 and 25 ml or 5 and 25g if it’s water.)
    
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reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
We need to go deeper, america needs to come up with new time measurements too. Everything must go!

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TomMasz@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
To be fair, it would be the same answer even if we used the metric system.

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- GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, but in one the math is super easy and you don’t need to throw in 6 conversion factors.
  
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  - SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Okay, then, how much energy does it take to boil 1mL of water from room temperature? (Note that I said “boil,” not raise it to 100°C.)
    
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Omnipitaph@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Having read a good portion of the comments in this thread and the anti-american sentiment attached, I am convinced that the only reason the US isn’t wholly metric at this point is out of spite.

I know the actual reason is that it would cost too damn much to convert all the infrastructure we’ve built in imperial, but now I just want the USA to keep kicking everyone in the balls at the Olympics, in the military, and with global corporate supremacy just to own it to the world that they’re better than all of you AND they use imperial.

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agent_nycto@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Funny how the French got the calculations wrong for the entire basis of metric though.

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rhinestones@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Grateful for my blessings and blessed to give back, I’m giving 35 grand to anyone who messages “GRACE” on Telegram @Georgestones12, I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden. It’s a season of love, kindness, and blessings.

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Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I want this but with diet coke.

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