It only seems ridiculous because you forgot some intermediates: 5.5 yards = 1 rod, 4 rods = 1 chain, 10 chain = 1 furlong, and 8 furlong = 1 mile. So just gotta remember 12, 3, 5.5, 4, 10, 8. Super simple.
You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys
Submitted 8 hours ago by OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Rod? Chain? What is this bdsm?
restingOface@quokk.au 7 hours ago
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Worse, its the imperial units “system”
No safeword, no lube
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
bajabound@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Chains and links brings me back to my old drafting days. 10 square chains are 1 acre. 80 chains is a mile.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Americans choose to meassure thier dicks with the thumb of a british king instead of using meters… or GIGAmeters… there are no right awnsers, right?
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
1,000 kilometres = 1 megametre
3laws@lemmy.world 21 minutes ago
0.01 Petameters
Etterra@discuss.online 4 hours ago
My contrarian brain:
- 1 inch = 1 cm
- 1 yard = 1 meter
- 1 mile = 1 km
TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This is upsetting
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Uh, no.
10 feet = 1 decafoot
100 centiyards = 1 yard
1x10^18 attoacres = 1 acre
lividweasel@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m gonna start estimating distances in millimiles.
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
1 millimile ~ 5 feet, 3 and 23/64 inches.
makes perfect sense.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
This would be acceptable
tempest@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I mean the yard and pound have been defined by metric for a long time so it’s really just an indirect metric system so the USs feelings don’t get hurt.
over_clox@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s, we measure in common units around here…
expatriado@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
shopping for a new mailbox today, they used number of baseballs it can fit as the units and/or basketball for the big ones
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Boooorrrrrriiiiiiing
Do we need to post the same shit all the time on a biweekly cycle? Surely there is something actually interesting to post/talk about.
davidagain@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
This comment is the most exciting thing I’ve read on Lemmy all year long! I can’t wait to talk about something else! Whoopeee! Yay!
huquad@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Wait till you hear about the energy efficiency ratio
milbyte11@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
is that the one where they measure one half in BTUs and the other in KWh for some reason
3laws@lemmy.world 20 minutes ago
One big cube for ice in my study room for me please.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
A sixth of a foot?
Now do a sixth of a meter lol.
Base ten is not the flex you think
TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You mean 16.7cm ?
And why a 6th ? Why not a 5th, or a 7th ? Your argument is not the flex you think.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Maybe me and five friends want to split a fruit by the foot.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I think it’s worth adding that while no system can avoid difficult divisions, we use the same base-ten numerals everywhere so metric only has to deal with the limitations of base-ten. Using a unit system with a different base, but then having base-ten numbers to count those sounds like it defeats the purpose. If we counted in base-twelve, then that would be a different matter.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Ready to have your mind blown?
You can write 1/6m.
You can write π m.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I don’t understand what you just said, and I don’t care to respond
restingOface@quokk.au 7 hours ago
Plate or platter?
deHaga@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
1 acre
UK 4,046.85642 m² US 4,046.87261 m²
OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
1 acre (us international acre)= 0.999996 acres(us survey acres).
Even inside the US they use two different measures for acre.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
And three fluid ounces!
someguy3@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Is that because of the survey foot?
Dadifer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, after learning Japanese in 3 different writing systems, one of which has thousands of characters… I’m never hearing criticism of Imperial units again
DigDoug@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
If you consider hiragana and katakana to be different writing systems, then English lower and upper case letters are two different writing systems, too.
Not that it makes Kanji any easier to learn.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Sorry, I haven’t gotten to the katakana part yet. Are you saying they’re all the same sounds as hiragana, just slightly different shapes?
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Yeah, but satellites don’t orbit at 2 - 200 megameters, they orbit at 2,000 to 200,000 kilometers for some reason.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
You do see Mm and Gm sometimes in telemetries and infographics
Kraiden@piefed.social 2 hours ago
I think the fact that you intuitively know which unit should come next is kinda the point though. What’s after a mile? An armpit? How many miles to pit? Is that the same for a nautical pit? Are satellite orbits measured in regular pits or nautical pits?
DangerNooble@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Meanwhile the UK naming their currency after a sex act.
sundray@lemmus.org 5 hours ago
Metric system is easy? Only if you know Latin, Greek, AND math at the same time!
saltesc@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s easier to use their names
Deci = 1/10th
Centi = 100th
Milli = 1000th
Micro = 1,000,000th
Nano = 1,000,000,000thDeca = ×10 Hector = 100 Kilo = ×1,000 Mega - ×1,000,000 Giga = × 1,000,000,000 Tera = × 1,000,000,000,000,000
Etc prefixing the thing being measured.
So you know what a centimetre, gigabyte, megaton, kilojoules, etc. are.
Other easy conversions too, like 1kg = 1L of water.
And it’s metre. Because a meter is a measuring device and all this shit is Latin (metrum) like proper science stuff be. Americans don’t even use it, so they can fuck off with their misspelling.
And that’s it. You now know the metric system. You probably now realise you’ve been using it all along for many things.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’ve never thought of a mile as 1760 yards on 5280 feet or 1.6km depending on the context. The measurement makes me smile for some reason.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I fucking love the Key and Peele (or was it SNL?) founding fathers skit about this. 😆
davidagain@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s obvious that there’s 1760 yards in a mile.
There’s 22 yards in a chain, which we can all remember because of the 22 yard line in rugby.
There are 10 chains in a furlong, which fans of metric can’t complain about.
There are 8 furlongs in a mile, just like there are 8 pints in a gallon.
And 22x10x8 = 11x10x16 and 11 is easy to multiply by in your head, so it’s really very simple to get to 1760.
/s
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
this but unironically.