This is a terrible video. You have no idea how metric works. No one is talking deciliters You can convert across weight and volume perfectly with metric...How many oz In a gallon? 128 how many grams in a liter 1000.
@2017Downtown grams is not a unit of volume, so you cannot say how many grams there are in a liter, unless you are given the density of the liquid of which you wanna know the weight.
Celsius vs Fahrenheit, though, there's almost no utility over each other.
Scientists have more utility with metric than lay-people would. I don't think I've ever had to do any sort of ridiculous measurement conversion outside of scientific/math work. Really, people just use the measurements to give estimations for lengths, etc.
Although Metric is the easier way to go, imperial is divisible by more numbers than metric which is better, because when applying things to real world situations your not going to get pretty numbers that come out even like those your science book. but imperial has too many units. Not a "fanboy" of either.
@mitchphilipp Irrelevant. For instance, I don't go around saying that I weight 73 kilos and 352 grams. I just say 73 kilos or 73 kilos and a half, approximating. And it still is much better than imperial because even though you are approximating, metric still preserves a certain precision.
For instance, the most ridiculous unit of the imperial system is the stone (6,35 kilos). How imprecise is that? Awfully imprecise.
The imperial system isn't that bad if you just use one measurement e.g. just feet, pounds, etc. but converting from feet to furlongs or gallons to drams is just stupid in the first place. The metric is very good as well so just choose whatever but remember units.
@chocchipcookiegirl In the 1975, Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act in order to make the metric system the preferred measurement for trade and commerce. As we can see today, it was widely ignored.
Hmm... no one uses decimeters for practial uses. The same way no one uses picometers or attometers or gigameters or terameters or exameters for pratical uses.
Only half true..scientists indeed use it..just normal people stick to milli, centi, kilo. (In science its also just used to shorten numbers in a decimal system...write down 1 terrameter in meters..much longer number =) ..all good as long as the system is in 10* system )
If this is the main argument for going metric (easier long structure calculations mixing other measurements within the system that's only practical/necessary to people that probably wouldn't be caught dead without a calculator anyways) then it doesn't have a chance at replacing the Imperial system here
When I stayed for the summer for work in US, I had the discussion about metric and imperial measurement. When I asked the guy what the gallon is, I mean how do you measure the volume, what is it? the guy showed me 1-gallon bottle. He was kinda suprised when I explained him basic rule of one litre and it's connection beatween centimeters and kilograms. Too easy! I don't really understand why we even use imerial anyway here in Europe (for pipes, screens etc.)
Even worse you could be like Britain and use both. We use Miles per gallon for fuel efficency but litres when we buy petrol, stone's when measuring people but Kg for anyone else it can get very confusing.
Metric is all base 10 ... Imperial is all base "whatever we happened to find convenient at the time". I'm stuck on Imperial, just wish we would switch in the US so I could get unstuck on it.
@12ampvacuum but would you rather have a messy decimal (0.03125) or a number that's in fractions (1/32)? For smaller denominators, sure decimals might be a bit easier to understand, but what about when you get big denominators? Fractions are much more precise when you have a number like 1/516 or something tiny like that.
@willsham45 Um ... not really, it goes all the way to atometer, the size of an atom ... roughly. Also, you can use fractions, it's not standard, but possible and many people do, like half a meter.
Imperial was useful, now its out of date and senseless to use. Metric is the way to go. But if your not open minded to better things like using Metric then your just a fan-boy of Imperial.
oh and by the way.. as to STRANGE ways that inches came into being? you know what an inch was based off of?? 3 barley seeds laid tip to tip.. YEAH barley seeds.. in middle ages "ok I guess" they needed something.. barley seeds? they don't get people to the moon folks... metric.. metric is the answer to it all. I hope (though will be so disappointed I didn't grow up with it) in my lifetime to see imperial vanish and go to metric WORLDWIDE.
The last and perhaps most important in the eyes of the average person on th street in US is that we have been losing jobs and manufacturing DUE TO this problem. Do most people realize here in the US that when companies OVERSEAS make products from steel beams to toys that they make 99% of those in metric for the rest of the world and have to make THE OTHER 1% in imperial just for the US market? and WE have to do the opposite.. we make things that then have to be converted outside the US.
When the Parthenon was being built..they discovered early that they had to make sure EVERYONE was using the same results with different measurements. They then took a slab and showed illustrations of the various measuring systems and corresponded those with the one set measurement that was to be used on the project.. they realized that you had to make sure EVERYONE is using the same length for building it.. as a result they made a structure so precise even today! we would have trouble making it!
ITS NOT ARBITARY!!! it comes down to humans being able to communicate accurately and without confusion,errors or interpretation of scientific matters. When engineers of all kinds talk to each other on the size of a piece of steel..it can NOT be open to interpretation or arbitrary communication..it has to be precise. The way you do that is one universally set standard of measurement. how can people and cultures of a planet make progress when the systems such as even this are not uniform?
@DaFawky lol, except for the fact that every mathematician, physicist, biologist and every other member of the scientific community uses the metric system.
1 mile is equal to 5280 feet which is 8 furlongs, each furlong equal to 10 chains, each chain equal to 22 yards and each yard equal to 3 feet.
This is idiotically complex, when a far simpler counting system exists, hell even the Myan base 60 that we use for time and angle is easier than this shit.
@hodgie132 No shit, because every mathematician, physicist, biologist and most people in the world thinks it's "easier"... Did you even read my comment?
I'm saying it takes a BRAIN to think through the imperial system. That was the point.
1 week is 168 hours, which is 10,080 minutes, or 648,000 seconds. And?
How about let's split 24 hours into 10 units to make it "easier" for everyone.
Only 3 countries haven't adopted the metric system; Burma, Liberia and the USA. The first two countries are planning on adopting it at some point though. Where does this leave the US?
Everyone against the metric system, answer all the following questions:
How many cubic inches are in a gallon, now in a bushel, now in a fl. oz. (which fluid am I talking about), how much rain (in gallons, quarts, cups, and oz.) will have fallen on 1 square foot if the rain is 4 yards tall? I'm 100% for the metric system and may I just say: There is 1 milliliter in 1 cubic centimeter, 1000 mL in 1 cubic decimeter (1 cubic decimeter = 1 liter), 1 square meter with 1 millimeter of rain = 1 liter.
The meter was defined as 1/10,000,000 the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. The idea was that no matter what meridian,it was part of the earth you stood on and not someone's body measurement.
Then the French Academy of Sciences who proposed this,then set the Paris Meridian for the survey. :)
Correct. Once the survey defined the meter, the standard was at first a metal bar,then replaced with better methods. Odd enough the survey was off by .03% in calculating the distance to the N. Pole,but it was decided to keep the definition of the meter the way it was.
Yes, it's virtually indisputable that the metric system is easier...the problem in the US would be getting everything *switched over* to metric. Which would cost a lot of money and take some serious education. (cars, street signs, etc.)
Actaully, the volume measurements for the Imperial system are all divisible by 16. 16 Tablespoons in a cup (8 fl. oz), 16 cups in a gallon, 8 pints in a gallon, 4 quarts in a gallon. I'd rather be using this than liters any day.
So is it bad that I actually solved "One mile minus ten yards plus two feet minus and inch and a half" before he said "you don't have any idea" - without pausing?
Yeah well us British could see our empire was coming to an end so we decided to fuck up the world with our stupid as Imperial maths shit but we failed :/ Ill be back...
The imperial system is all about halving, quartering etc things into equal parts. If we had a 10 inch foot we run into all sorts of complications using fractions of inches to simply divide the foot. Using 12 inches we can half, third, quarter, sizth and twelvth the foot without using fraction inches. In the old days, how do you think it was possibly to split things equaly into 10? Impossible, but half and half the half etc makes 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 th etc, very easy.
Regardless of how more efficient the matric system may be, I just cant use it and neither can anyone who has been trained to use the imperial system. When I want to estimate the distance ill drive to the next town I dont think in kilometers, I think in miles. When I want to know the temperature I think in fahrenheit not celcius. I dont see what is so hard about it anyway. 1 mile is 5280 feet, 1760 yards, 63360 inches. They are convertable in the same way. You just have to work a bit harder.
@josh18230 "You just have to work a bit harder." Yes... exactly. Now try to use the Imperial system in scientific applications or when converting between units in a more complex manner, eg. the volume of 1mile*1mile*1mile of air. Now how many gallons is that?
The problem is there are so many different measurements 12 inches in a foot yet 16 lbs in a stone and so on personally I couldn't remember them all 2 3 4 12 14 16 for different things with metric it is always 10 nice and simple.
Anyway is not too hard when the UK decimalized money (i.e. 100p to £1) there wasn't too much trouble.
look it up on google to see what I mean, it is comprehensible but pointless 240p to a £1... madness, or 36F is freezing point.
@andyp315 14lbs in a stone but that's an eight of a hundred weight. 32°F is freezing. The point is it's not so much about how many of something is in something. The imperial system is all about halving, quartering etc things into equal parts
The only thing good about Imperial measurements is probably temperature. Freeze at 32, boil at I-don't-even-remember, but yearlong, really cold equals 1-30, cold equals 31-50, fair equals 51-60, warm equals 61-80, hot equals 81-100.
It's just easier to visualize when the temperatures scale goes from 1-100. It's not easier to use, but for estimates, it works. You should probably use Metric when you want to get technical and/or accurate.
@98thProductions well not there physically, but they did send other things. therefore they had the idea of space travel before. In fact, the united states SPECIFICALLY decided to go to the moon because of the Russians.
He was almost right. The Imperial system is completely arbitrary. In the Imperial system, the measurement were based on objects. A foot, a yard, that's a small plot of grass. But in the metric system measurements are based on something unchanging. For instance the Meter is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second. these days they keep the Imperial alive by using the metric system. The foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 meters.
@Garuda1337 Other countries already knew that there was nothing special on the moon so the were smart enough NOT to go and spend the money on better things... Figure that out..
Learn to do arithmetic with common fractions and imperial is quite useful, especially for approximate daily use. I guess if you only know how to do arithmetic with factors of 10, then sure stick to metric. Imperial divisions matches the dimensions of common things in the real world. Similar to how Farenheit matches a northern European and North American climate.
Metric for sure. it's easier to do in your head and to learn quickly. The whole world uses it and there's no reason not to use it. I would love to see it implemented into the U.S and on an irrevelevant note, year round schooling.
Imperial has a much better name, but the fact is its just not a good system. It was created hundreds of years ago were education and mathematical systems where just being started. People had to think something up to use for a standard. But as the time went on things changed...
Base 12 would make more sense than base 10 (the metric system). 12 can be divided into halves, quarters, thirds (all real handy) and sixths (not so handy) leaving no remainder. Metric can only be divided in half and fifths.
FUCK YOU RONALD REAGAN FOR ABOLISHING THE METRIC BOARD THUS PREVENTING THE US FROM SWITCHING TO THE METRIC SYSTEM. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU RONALD REAGAN!!!
The height of a mountain, the depth of a pool, or the distance between two rivers, is just as fixed by nature as the earths rotational interval. The time that passes between every rotation of the earth can be divided any way humans want it to be divided. Metric just fails.
i think that the comments below are kind of biast because imperial is the common american usage so let me make this simple.
if you think imperial is best then stop being so one-sided and see that it is frankly a shit-assed system. i know it's habit but realise that metric is the only one that makes sense.
The counterpart in SI for HP is Watts, what is better?, a measure of power for an unknown horse lifting God knows how much weight a certain distance during a second or a unit of power equivalent to voltage and current (V*I =P, 1 V* 1A = 1W) or a joule per second (1 W = 1 J /s = 1 Nm/s) SI and metric systems is so easy, how many BTU's per second is a HP? or how many pounds force yard per second is a Horse Power???
Base 10 (metric) divides by 2. Base 12 (imperial) divides by 2 as well, it also divides by the extremely useful number 3, it also divides by 4 (which in turn divides by 2), and it divides by 6 (which in turn divides in to both 2 and 3). So twelve has eight sub-multiples to base ten's two. This means that at least four times as many sums in base twelve will involve convenient numbers as in base ten. Metric is shit, but it is easy for thick people to master and that's its appeal.
@Vot63 That's because your staring with something divisible by 3, 30cm is approximately one foot 30cm divides by 3.
Metric can convert between volume, area and length easily, as well as mass, density etc. and it convert from smaller to bigger units easier, and it's better for stuff really small.
Metric is better overall. Metric can convert to lower and higher units EXACTLY very easily.
@11cookeaw1 Also there's it's near exactness to SI units, which include energy, force, momentum, power, frequency, which makes it perfect for scientists, which is which it's what they generally use. Finally, there's it's global usage.
@11cookeaw1 Also there's it's near exactness to SI units, which include energy, force, momentum, power, frequency, which makes it perfect for scientists, which is which it's what they generally use. Finally, there's it's global usage.
@11cookeaw1 Metric is superior to Imperial in some applications, but it is inferior in daily use, and for the vast majority of applications used by tradesmen shoppers and homeowners. Metric is totally useless for marking time, but the Metric fanatics totally ignore this glaring failure. The metric mob are simply enchanted by their self assumed status as "cutting edge", "modernists". Your clumsy system is only truly useful in strict and specific scientific applications, which is where it belongs.
I live in the US, and I see why you prefer the imperial system over the metric. It's because you got used to it. I got too, but I have to agree that if people get used to the metrical, everything would be easier.
But I really can't see why you're DEFENDING the Imperial system... It's not like it's a fight or something... lol
@nge1301 12hr day, sixty minute hr, sixty second minute......what doesn't correspond to the Imperial system about that? The French tried to implement a metric calendar, where is that now? We heard the same "progressive" crap about architecture in the fifties that we are hearing about metric now mate.
@Vot63 ... In all places of the world the hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds... Even in countries where people are clueless about the Imperial system... WTF?
@nge1301 Why? Base ten is obviously superior. People must be made to convert to decimal time. You can't have two systems running concurrently, it's insane!
As a European I know the metric system because I'm using it all my life long. Because I know some Americans I've learnt a bit about the imperial system and indeed it doesn't really make sense. I need conversion tables every time to convert measurements. C'mon Americans step over to metric, it's so much easier!
Its not realy worth it to change a distance system for the road which all people already understand. I mean, 14 miles or 14 km doesn't make much difference. But when working with smaller numbers then yes, metric is much better and that is why Americans already use metric in science. So they use 2 systems. But its kinda expensive to change all the road signs when not realy needed.
I am in the US and i think that using Meters, centimeters, etc. is easier than feet, inches, etc.
I think the only reason we are not converting so quickly is because it would take a lot of time and money to exchange all of our thermometers, rulers, etc.
@SEThatered Cool! Why don't you let military time be the flagship for metric? Because it's f*****g shit useless in everyday application, and you know it, metrotard.
@SEThatered Sorry. It's my frustration at people who are too pig shit ignorant to understand that using a TWENTY FOUR hour division of time, doesn't make it BASE TEN. There's a clue in the terminology, dipstick.
@SEThatered The point being made was that idiots are presenting the 24hr clock as a "metric" system, and you have interjected to support these idiots. You are now trying to slither back to a basic position that we departed from several posts ago. Does that explain the "problem" in simple enough terms for you?
Love the METRIC system ;-).... The Imperial system should be wiped off the face of the planet!
aharonstube 19 hours ago
This is a terrible video. You have no idea how metric works. No one is talking deciliters You can convert across weight and volume perfectly with metric...How many oz In a gallon? 128 how many grams in a liter 1000.
2017Downtown 1 day ago
@2017Downtown grams is not a unit of volume, so you cannot say how many grams there are in a liter, unless you are given the density of the liquid of which you wanna know the weight.
edoardoruggeri1 17 hours ago
@edoardoruggeri1 Sorry i meant water. Even so almost everything is easier to convert across measurements.
2017Downtown 15 hours ago
You dont have to be a genius to realise the metric system is much easier but there are also a lot of people used to imperial. Pointless video.
Herimia 3 days ago
Celsius vs Fahrenheit, though, there's almost no utility over each other.
Scientists have more utility with metric than lay-people would. I don't think I've ever had to do any sort of ridiculous measurement conversion outside of scientific/math work. Really, people just use the measurements to give estimations for lengths, etc.
oumo 3 days ago
Although Metric is the easier way to go, imperial is divisible by more numbers than metric which is better, because when applying things to real world situations your not going to get pretty numbers that come out even like those your science book. but imperial has too many units. Not a "fanboy" of either.
mitchphilipp 2 weeks ago
@mitchphilipp Irrelevant. For instance, I don't go around saying that I weight 73 kilos and 352 grams. I just say 73 kilos or 73 kilos and a half, approximating. And it still is much better than imperial because even though you are approximating, metric still preserves a certain precision.
For instance, the most ridiculous unit of the imperial system is the stone (6,35 kilos). How imprecise is that? Awfully imprecise.
edoardoruggeri1 17 hours ago
The imperial system isn't that bad if you just use one measurement e.g. just feet, pounds, etc. but converting from feet to furlongs or gallons to drams is just stupid in the first place. The metric is very good as well so just choose whatever but remember units.
GingerGames 2 weeks ago
was the guy who invented the imperial system drunk or something?
MARIOLUIGI080198 2 weeks ago
Waiting for the switch to metric. Seriously
chocchipcookiegirl 2 weeks ago
@chocchipcookiegirl In the 1975, Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act in order to make the metric system the preferred measurement for trade and commerce. As we can see today, it was widely ignored.
xchucktatorshipx 2 weeks ago
Hmm... no one uses decimeters for practial uses. The same way no one uses picometers or attometers or gigameters or terameters or exameters for pratical uses.
bobri289 2 weeks ago
@bobri289
Only half true..scientists indeed use it..just normal people stick to milli, centi, kilo. (In science its also just used to shorten numbers in a decimal system...write down 1 terrameter in meters..much longer number =) ..all good as long as the system is in 10* system )
Sizzlik 3 days ago
We can also use furlongs, pallets, rods, and chains.
gcastro44 3 weeks ago
Also...you totally hurt my brain with this video 0.o i'll stick to binary xD
SirezX 3 weeks ago
@SirezX 0100100001000101010011000100110001001111
Neko3Noskire 3 weeks ago
@Neko3Noskire
01101100011011010110000101101111001011100010111000101110011100110111010101110000
^_-
SirezX 3 weeks ago
@SirezX 01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100101 00100000 00110001 00110011 00110011 00110111
Neko3Noskire 3 weeks ago
@Neko3Noskire
01001000011000010110100001100001001011100010111000101110011110010110010101110011001000000100100100100000011101110110111101110101011011000110010000100000011100110110000101111001001000000110100101110100001000000110100101110011
SirezX 3 weeks ago
@Neko3Noskire - "This is true 1337"
There are 10 types of people, those who know binary, and those who don't! :)
bitphr3ak 1 week ago
@bitphr3ak so true
Neko3Noskire 1 week ago
that's a tiny bit (29Ft. xD) under a mile haha
SirezX 3 weeks ago
If this is the main argument for going metric (easier long structure calculations mixing other measurements within the system that's only practical/necessary to people that probably wouldn't be caught dead without a calculator anyways) then it doesn't have a chance at replacing the Imperial system here
Salanmon 3 weeks ago
When I stayed for the summer for work in US, I had the discussion about metric and imperial measurement. When I asked the guy what the gallon is, I mean how do you measure the volume, what is it? the guy showed me 1-gallon bottle. He was kinda suprised when I explained him basic rule of one litre and it's connection beatween centimeters and kilograms. Too easy! I don't really understand why we even use imerial anyway here in Europe (for pipes, screens etc.)
arguemental 4 weeks ago
Even worse you could be like Britain and use both. We use Miles per gallon for fuel efficency but litres when we buy petrol, stone's when measuring people but Kg for anyone else it can get very confusing.
starofcctv94 1 month ago
802.
kayakcurtis 1 month ago
So f*ing true!
tausilber 1 month ago
Metric is all base 10 ... Imperial is all base "whatever we happened to find convenient at the time". I'm stuck on Imperial, just wish we would switch in the US so I could get unstuck on it.
KittenKoder 1 month ago 4
But that's never gonna happen :P
jewhitman47 1 month ago
Duh. The only way the metric system could be better is if we all counted in doucecimal or octal or hecadecimal instead of decimal.
jewhitman47 1 month ago
@jewhitman47
Metric is the n:1 system to use, because every thing is linked together.
TheFreelanceRadio 3 weeks ago
imperial works better with smaller numbers...or so I was told...
1/2 an inch 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and you are too small to see the difference...maybe it is 16. But you got 5 devitions
Metric 1cm 1mm then too small.
willsham45 2 months ago
@willsham45 !!!??? Decimal places -- a great invention.
12ampvacuum 1 month ago
@12ampvacuum but would you rather have a messy decimal (0.03125) or a number that's in fractions (1/32)? For smaller denominators, sure decimals might be a bit easier to understand, but what about when you get big denominators? Fractions are much more precise when you have a number like 1/516 or something tiny like that.
TheMeaning0fLife 1 month ago
@TheMeaning0fLife A decimal is just a fraction written out. You can turn it back around and have a fraction again. that simple.
TheBestofChawchi 1 month ago
@willsham45 Um ... not really, it goes all the way to atometer, the size of an atom ... roughly. Also, you can use fractions, it's not standard, but possible and many people do, like half a meter.
KittenKoder 1 month ago
Imperial was useful, now its out of date and senseless to use. Metric is the way to go. But if your not open minded to better things like using Metric then your just a fan-boy of Imperial.
JuanOlivier1 2 months ago 19
@JuanOlivier1 argumentum ad novitatem
Ishpeck 2 weeks ago
Gotta love the Americunts raging on this video...
Jorgen297 2 months ago
oh and by the way.. as to STRANGE ways that inches came into being? you know what an inch was based off of?? 3 barley seeds laid tip to tip.. YEAH barley seeds.. in middle ages "ok I guess" they needed something.. barley seeds? they don't get people to the moon folks... metric.. metric is the answer to it all. I hope (though will be so disappointed I didn't grow up with it) in my lifetime to see imperial vanish and go to metric WORLDWIDE.
mxferro 2 months ago
@mxferro we're almost there! only three countries left.
12ampvacuum 1 month ago
The last and perhaps most important in the eyes of the average person on th street in US is that we have been losing jobs and manufacturing DUE TO this problem. Do most people realize here in the US that when companies OVERSEAS make products from steel beams to toys that they make 99% of those in metric for the rest of the world and have to make THE OTHER 1% in imperial just for the US market? and WE have to do the opposite.. we make things that then have to be converted outside the US.
mxferro 2 months ago
When the Parthenon was being built..they discovered early that they had to make sure EVERYONE was using the same results with different measurements. They then took a slab and showed illustrations of the various measuring systems and corresponded those with the one set measurement that was to be used on the project.. they realized that you had to make sure EVERYONE is using the same length for building it.. as a result they made a structure so precise even today! we would have trouble making it!
mxferro 2 months ago
ITS NOT ARBITARY!!! it comes down to humans being able to communicate accurately and without confusion,errors or interpretation of scientific matters. When engineers of all kinds talk to each other on the size of a piece of steel..it can NOT be open to interpretation or arbitrary communication..it has to be precise. The way you do that is one universally set standard of measurement. how can people and cultures of a planet make progress when the systems such as even this are not uniform?
mxferro 2 months ago
0:54 Oh my god. He's actually using his BRAIN to calculate this time instead of relying by 3rd grade tactics!
imperial system = advanced mathematics
metric system = durr I'm too stupids to do measurin unless its by tens!!!111
DaFawky 2 months ago
@DaFawky omg your so childish, its simpler, easier to use and its more used, so metric is better
dinonemesis 2 months ago 3
@dinonemesis Actually, from my perspective, you are the one who is very childish... like a little kid who has to count on his fingers.
"I can only do math if it's counting by tens!!!111"
Grow up!
DaFawky 2 months ago
@DaFawky lol, except for the fact that every mathematician, physicist, biologist and every other member of the scientific community uses the metric system.
1 mile is equal to 5280 feet which is 8 furlongs, each furlong equal to 10 chains, each chain equal to 22 yards and each yard equal to 3 feet.
This is idiotically complex, when a far simpler counting system exists, hell even the Myan base 60 that we use for time and angle is easier than this shit.
hodgie132 2 months ago 13
@hodgie132 No shit, because every mathematician, physicist, biologist and most people in the world thinks it's "easier"... Did you even read my comment?
I'm saying it takes a BRAIN to think through the imperial system. That was the point.
1 week is 168 hours, which is 10,080 minutes, or 648,000 seconds. And?
How about let's split 24 hours into 10 units to make it "easier" for everyone.
DaFawky 2 months ago
@DaFawky
What is 1/50 of a mile in furlongs, fathoms, yards, feet, inches, down to the nearest 32nd (without using a calculator)?
What is 1/50 of a kilometer (without using a calculator)? 20 meters.
Imperial is time consuming, confusing, and pointless. Only a dumbass would do more work than needed.
mainchow10 2 months ago 3
@mainchow10 That's like saying "only a dumbass doesn't count on his fingers".
What is 1/50 of an hour in minutes and seconds without using a calculator? Most people wouldn't be able to answer that.
DaFawky 2 months ago
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mainchow10 2 months ago
@DaFawky How?
Oh, and you haven't answered my question.
mainchow10 2 months ago
@DaFawky Time is not decimal or metric.
mainchow10 2 months ago
@DaFawky You don't need to count on your fingers unless you're that bad at math so how does my comment say that?
mainchow10 2 months ago
Only 3 countries haven't adopted the metric system; Burma, Liberia and the USA. The first two countries are planning on adopting it at some point though. Where does this leave the US?
curlybob64 3 months ago
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mainchow10 3 months ago
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@curlybob64 I read that we're gonna switch at the end of 2019.
mainchow10 3 months ago
Everyone against the metric system, answer all the following questions:
How many cubic inches are in a gallon, now in a bushel, now in a fl. oz. (which fluid am I talking about), how much rain (in gallons, quarts, cups, and oz.) will have fallen on 1 square foot if the rain is 4 yards tall? I'm 100% for the metric system and may I just say: There is 1 milliliter in 1 cubic centimeter, 1000 mL in 1 cubic decimeter (1 cubic decimeter = 1 liter), 1 square meter with 1 millimeter of rain = 1 liter.
mainchow10 3 months ago
The meter was defined as 1/10,000,000 the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. The idea was that no matter what meridian,it was part of the earth you stood on and not someone's body measurement.
Then the French Academy of Sciences who proposed this,then set the Paris Meridian for the survey. :)
gtgene 3 months ago
@gtgene Now it's defined as the distance the speed of light in a vacuum travels 1/299,792,458th of a second.
mainchow10 3 months ago
@mainchow10
Correct. Once the survey defined the meter, the standard was at first a metal bar,then replaced with better methods. Odd enough the survey was off by .03% in calculating the distance to the N. Pole,but it was decided to keep the definition of the meter the way it was.
gtgene 3 months ago
@gtgene
They should've. An SI unit should not be defined in terms of an object.
mainchow10 3 months ago
@gtgene Well it's arbitrary yes, but it's all divisible by 10 so it's consistent and thus easier to calculate and convert.
Mtaalas 3 months ago
you deserve a medal my friend :)
laur121212 3 months ago
the world is made of: ... normal people who use metric system and a nation full of idiots ... Americans Y U NO FUCKING NORMAL ? ...
laur121212 3 months ago
Once again it's the US vs the rest of the world
QuikDJ 3 months ago 4
best thing about the metric system is 0 degrees is freezing lol
94roadmaster 3 months ago
@94roadmaster Actually it's the temperature at which ice melts.
sp0kk 3 months ago
Yes, it's virtually indisputable that the metric system is easier...the problem in the US would be getting everything *switched over* to metric. Which would cost a lot of money and take some serious education. (cars, street signs, etc.)
moearly 3 months ago
Actaully, the volume measurements for the Imperial system are all divisible by 16. 16 Tablespoons in a cup (8 fl. oz), 16 cups in a gallon, 8 pints in a gallon, 4 quarts in a gallon. I'd rather be using this than liters any day.
EmilioCasavegas 3 months ago
@EmilioCasavegas
So, you prefer dividing by 16 rather than by 10?
1stKimozabi 3 months ago
@1stKimozabi Well, that WAS the entire point of my post, yeah.
EmilioCasavegas 3 months ago
thankyou!!!!!!! now can we all use kelvins and radians
mmann66666 3 months ago
So is it bad that I actually solved "One mile minus ten yards plus two feet minus and inch and a half" before he said "you don't have any idea" - without pausing?
Num83R11982 3 months ago
Yeah well us British could see our empire was coming to an end so we decided to fuck up the world with our stupid as Imperial maths shit but we failed :/ Ill be back...
GamingLogics 3 months ago
The imperial system is all about halving, quartering etc things into equal parts. If we had a 10 inch foot we run into all sorts of complications using fractions of inches to simply divide the foot. Using 12 inches we can half, third, quarter, sizth and twelvth the foot without using fraction inches. In the old days, how do you think it was possibly to split things equaly into 10? Impossible, but half and half the half etc makes 1/4, 1/8 and 1/16 th etc, very easy.
landofnor 4 months ago
noone uses decimeters
toberses11 4 months ago
@toberses11 i use it a lot in school
dinonemesis 2 months ago
Think metric.
ScoobyDriver11 4 months ago
imperial is confusing
Its so hard to do calculate things i your brain when u got 1.62, 0.9144 when u can use metric where everything is divisible by 10
makemesick35 5 months ago
@98thProductions yes, but that was triggered by the Russians getting into space first. The Yanks lost one race and were determined to win the next.
leapoffaith20 5 months ago
its true I'm american and i run off metric system and ave to translate for my friends
maxaslagolis 5 months ago
with all due respect to those that use metric, i prefer to say that i am 6ft tall instead of saying I'm 183cm/1.8 meters.
GameModJr 5 months ago
@GameModJr that just because your used to that....
Luke51015 4 months ago
@Luke51015 and your use to the other way? 183cm sounds bigger than it really it 1.8 isnt much better
GameModJr 4 months ago
@GameModJr no.... i lived in asia until i was 15 and left america when i was 23 so im used to both
Luke51015 4 months ago
Regardless of how more efficient the matric system may be, I just cant use it and neither can anyone who has been trained to use the imperial system. When I want to estimate the distance ill drive to the next town I dont think in kilometers, I think in miles. When I want to know the temperature I think in fahrenheit not celcius. I dont see what is so hard about it anyway. 1 mile is 5280 feet, 1760 yards, 63360 inches. They are convertable in the same way. You just have to work a bit harder.
josh18230 5 months ago
@josh18230 "You just have to work a bit harder." Yes... exactly. Now try to use the Imperial system in scientific applications or when converting between units in a more complex manner, eg. the volume of 1mile*1mile*1mile of air. Now how many gallons is that?
KattungeMedMotorsag 5 months ago 25
@josh18230
The problem is there are so many different measurements 12 inches in a foot yet 16 lbs in a stone and so on personally I couldn't remember them all 2 3 4 12 14 16 for different things with metric it is always 10 nice and simple.
Anyway is not too hard when the UK decimalized money (i.e. 100p to £1) there wasn't too much trouble.
look it up on google to see what I mean, it is comprehensible but pointless 240p to a £1... madness, or 36F is freezing point.
andyp315 4 months ago
@andyp315 14lbs in a stone but that's an eight of a hundred weight. 32°F is freezing. The point is it's not so much about how many of something is in something. The imperial system is all about halving, quartering etc things into equal parts
landofnor 4 months ago
The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.
egonecoetcenote 5 months ago
@egonecoetcenote I get that checked out, bud.
thedarkone2134 4 months ago
The only thing good about Imperial measurements is probably temperature. Freeze at 32, boil at I-don't-even-remember, but yearlong, really cold equals 1-30, cold equals 31-50, fair equals 51-60, warm equals 61-80, hot equals 81-100.
It's just easier to visualize when the temperatures scale goes from 1-100. It's not easier to use, but for estimates, it works. You should probably use Metric when you want to get technical and/or accurate.
strilight 5 months ago
@98thProductions well not there physically, but they did send other things. therefore they had the idea of space travel before. In fact, the united states SPECIFICALLY decided to go to the moon because of the Russians.
SlushRamen 5 months ago
He was almost right. The Imperial system is completely arbitrary. In the Imperial system, the measurement were based on objects. A foot, a yard, that's a small plot of grass. But in the metric system measurements are based on something unchanging. For instance the Meter is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second. these days they keep the Imperial alive by using the metric system. The foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 meters.
CKent37 5 months ago
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Countries that use the Imperial System: United States
Countries that put a man on the moon: United States
That's right, so shut the fuck up.
Garuda1337 6 months ago
@Garuda1337 Countries that have 14.65 trillions in debt: United States
So, STFU idiot!
bigchicken24 5 months ago
@Garuda1337 Other countries already knew that there was nothing special on the moon so the were smart enough NOT to go and spend the money on better things... Figure that out..
Dilekz 5 months ago
Americans went to the moon and discovered it wasn't made of cheese. They haven't been back since.
OneEyedJacker 4 months ago 27
@Garuda1337 Portugal: metric system
Portugal: America? ever heard of it? yeah...
and we didn't even kwen it was there, you guys knew where you were going
gothikgamer 5 months ago
@gothikgamer hahaha!! Good job! ;)
Green0rRed 5 months ago
@Garuda1337 Russia was there first.......
SlushRamen 5 months ago
@Garuda1337 you do realise that nasa and everyone that works with science in the US uses metric and not imperial right?
merlin371 5 months ago
@Garuda1337 Country that crashes the world economy every other decade: USA
EliasJordan3 5 months ago
Learn to do arithmetic with common fractions and imperial is quite useful, especially for approximate daily use. I guess if you only know how to do arithmetic with factors of 10, then sure stick to metric. Imperial divisions matches the dimensions of common things in the real world. Similar to how Farenheit matches a northern European and North American climate.
dwarftoad 6 months ago
Metric for sure. it's easier to do in your head and to learn quickly. The whole world uses it and there's no reason not to use it. I would love to see it implemented into the U.S and on an irrevelevant note, year round schooling.
Mattlarrivee 6 months ago
Imperial has a much better name, but the fact is its just not a good system. It was created hundreds of years ago were education and mathematical systems where just being started. People had to think something up to use for a standard. But as the time went on things changed...
LordWellington15 6 months ago
Take your Imperial measurements elsewhere.
Xephirox900 6 months ago 17
Base 12 would make more sense than base 10 (the metric system). 12 can be divided into halves, quarters, thirds (all real handy) and sixths (not so handy) leaving no remainder. Metric can only be divided in half and fifths.
Just sayin.....
dodgybrooks 6 months ago
@dodgybrooks
How about we make a number system and metric based on twelve? Good idea?
mainchow10 2 months ago
Kilowatts, that's the word he was looking for instead of horsepower.
oewkx 6 months ago
3 Bloody Countries... vs... a better measure system and the WORLD...
I'm British and I know Imperial is a bad system created by fat blokes with too much gold.
SyncreticFighting 6 months ago
FUCK YOU RONALD REAGAN FOR ABOLISHING THE METRIC BOARD THUS PREVENTING THE US FROM SWITCHING TO THE METRIC SYSTEM. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU RONALD REAGAN!!!
mainchow10 6 months ago
My dick is 17cm, yeah, that sounds right. :)
TheTruthfulAsshole 7 months ago
USA vs the world...
QuikDJ 7 months ago
sorry but 7 inches sound a lot more pleasing than 17 point 78 centimeters.
SovietSlayer 7 months ago
@SovietSlayer Yeah and 18 centimeters sound a lot more pleasing than 7.086 614 173 2 inches. What's your point?
aswaea 7 months ago 5
America, listen to this guy
Shortyland05 7 months ago 4
I like another name for imperial system: Standard. How STANDARD is a system used in 3 countries around the world.
Gedionphin 7 months ago 4
The height of a mountain, the depth of a pool, or the distance between two rivers, is just as fixed by nature as the earths rotational interval. The time that passes between every rotation of the earth can be divided any way humans want it to be divided. Metric just fails.
Vot63 7 months ago
@Vot63 Imperial is worst.
SyncreticFighting 6 months ago
i think that the comments below are kind of biast because imperial is the common american usage so let me make this simple.
if you think imperial is best then stop being so one-sided and see that it is frankly a shit-assed system. i know it's habit but realise that metric is the only one that makes sense.
peterf282 7 months ago
metric is easier to use, but I'm so use to imperial it's hard to switch it off in my head.
gmedia78 7 months ago
The counterpart in SI for HP is Watts, what is better?, a measure of power for an unknown horse lifting God knows how much weight a certain distance during a second or a unit of power equivalent to voltage and current (V*I =P, 1 V* 1A = 1W) or a joule per second (1 W = 1 J /s = 1 Nm/s) SI and metric systems is so easy, how many BTU's per second is a HP? or how many pounds force yard per second is a Horse Power???
Deutschip 7 months ago
@Deutschip
It is just a matter of habit. I'm quite used to compare cars in HP too.
But since electrical cars appeared i have to relearn all these HP values in Watts.
And i think one can better comprehend performances of different machinery,
if it is all measured in a unified unit system.
Besides HP is an outdated historic relic.
SEThatered 7 months ago
10mm = 1cm
10cm = 1dcm
10dcm = 1m
10m = 1dm
10dm = 1hm
10hm = 1km
But the three most commonly used are centimeter (closest to an inch), meter (closest to a yard), and kilometer (closest to a mile).
nge1301 7 months ago
I live in Germany, and we never use decimeter or deciliters. Makes it even easier.
InvasorEspacial007 7 months ago
Base 10 (metric) divides by 2. Base 12 (imperial) divides by 2 as well, it also divides by the extremely useful number 3, it also divides by 4 (which in turn divides by 2), and it divides by 6 (which in turn divides in to both 2 and 3). So twelve has eight sub-multiples to base ten's two. This means that at least four times as many sums in base twelve will involve convenient numbers as in base ten. Metric is shit, but it is easy for thick people to master and that's its appeal.
Vot63 8 months ago
@Vot63 That's because your staring with something divisible by 3, 30cm is approximately one foot 30cm divides by 3.
Metric can convert between volume, area and length easily, as well as mass, density etc. and it convert from smaller to bigger units easier, and it's better for stuff really small.
Metric is better overall. Metric can convert to lower and higher units EXACTLY very easily.
11cookeaw1 7 months ago
@11cookeaw1 Also there's it's near exactness to SI units, which include energy, force, momentum, power, frequency, which makes it perfect for scientists, which is which it's what they generally use. Finally, there's it's global usage.
11cookeaw1 7 months ago
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@11cookeaw1 Also there's it's near exactness to SI units, which include energy, force, momentum, power, frequency, which makes it perfect for scientists, which is which it's what they generally use. Finally, there's it's global usage.
11cookeaw1 7 months ago
@11cookeaw1 Metric is superior to Imperial in some applications, but it is inferior in daily use, and for the vast majority of applications used by tradesmen shoppers and homeowners. Metric is totally useless for marking time, but the Metric fanatics totally ignore this glaring failure. The metric mob are simply enchanted by their self assumed status as "cutting edge", "modernists". Your clumsy system is only truly useful in strict and specific scientific applications, which is where it belongs.
Vot63 7 months ago
@Vot63 lol. how do you mark time with imperial?
I live in the US, and I see why you prefer the imperial system over the metric. It's because you got used to it. I got too, but I have to agree that if people get used to the metrical, everything would be easier.
But I really can't see why you're DEFENDING the Imperial system... It's not like it's a fight or something... lol
nge1301 7 months ago
@nge1301 12hr day, sixty minute hr, sixty second minute......what doesn't correspond to the Imperial system about that? The French tried to implement a metric calendar, where is that now? We heard the same "progressive" crap about architecture in the fifties that we are hearing about metric now mate.
Vot63 7 months ago
@Vot63 ... In all places of the world the hour has 60 minutes and a minute has 60 seconds... Even in countries where people are clueless about the Imperial system... WTF?
nge1301 7 months ago
@nge1301 Why? Base ten is obviously superior. People must be made to convert to decimal time. You can't have two systems running concurrently, it's insane!
Vot63 7 months ago
@Vot63 wait... WTF? Are you defending metric or imperial?
nge1301 7 months ago
@nge1301 You've converted me. Let's get this revolution started, decimal time baby! Who cares about what the majority like to use!
Vot63 7 months ago
@Vot63 "the majority"? lol, ok but get your facts straight
nge1301 7 months ago
@Vot63 majority? almost the whole world uses metric :D
Darusdei 7 months ago
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@Vot63
O_O Base 12 (imperial)??? Really???
:
Base 12 would be: 1a=12b=144c=1728d=20736e=248832f
:
Imperial is: 1mile≈ 8 furlongs≈ 80 chains ≈1670 yards≈ 5280 feet≈ 63360 inches
It is rather base whatever!
SEThatered 7 months ago
@Vot63 You will always find something your base does not divide by. How about dividing 12 by 5? The beauty lasts not too far...
mainchow10 2 months ago
As a European I know the metric system because I'm using it all my life long. Because I know some Americans I've learnt a bit about the imperial system and indeed it doesn't really make sense. I need conversion tables every time to convert measurements. C'mon Americans step over to metric, it's so much easier!
Leviwosc 8 months ago 3
@Leviwosc
Had a discussion about that.
Its not realy worth it to change a distance system for the road which all people already understand. I mean, 14 miles or 14 km doesn't make much difference. But when working with smaller numbers then yes, metric is much better and that is why Americans already use metric in science. So they use 2 systems. But its kinda expensive to change all the road signs when not realy needed.
EliteGhost001 8 months ago
Eeeh, do note: the 14 km sign would have to be put closer to the ment opject then the 14 miles sign, that's the difference
1 km = 0.621371 miles
EliteGhost001 8 months ago
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Metric: 1km=10hm=100dam=1000m=10000dm=100000cm
Imperial: 1mile≈ 8 furlongs≈ 80 chains ≈1670 yards≈ 5280 feet≈ 63360 inches
SEThatered 8 months ago
I am in the US and i think that using Meters, centimeters, etc. is easier than feet, inches, etc.
I think the only reason we are not converting so quickly is because it would take a lot of time and money to exchange all of our thermometers, rulers, etc.
I Want change in the US! =]
cheatmasterbw 8 months ago
Metric is too mainstream, America is going to be a huge hipster nation and stay Imperial because nobody else uses it.
ThrashMetalCarlos 8 months ago
Metric is boring . Imperial is soo cool
gonavygonavy 8 months ago
Imperial sounds cooler though :(
NiceViking100 8 months ago
3:00 A.M.? What's that in metric time?
MrStoukaph 8 months ago
@MrStoukaph 3:00 the time only changes from 12 PM onwards like 1PM '13:00' and so on until 12 AM
LoudGJ 8 months ago
@LoudGJ I know, it's a joke.
MrStoukaph 8 months ago
@MrStoukaph
Same as military time!
SEThatered 8 months ago
@SEThatered Cool! Why don't you let military time be the flagship for metric? Because it's f*****g shit useless in everyday application, and you know it, metrotard.
Vot63 7 months ago
@Vot63
Why you are flaming so much?
Is it too hard for you to understand 20:00 (it is 8:00pm if you still don't get it)
So 8:00 is in the morning 20:00 is in the evening. Hard isn't it?
Personally i never used useless am/pm in everyday life, because all my clocks are digital...
SEThatered 7 months ago
@SEThatered Sorry. It's my frustration at people who are too pig shit ignorant to understand that using a TWENTY FOUR hour division of time, doesn't make it BASE TEN. There's a clue in the terminology, dipstick.
Vot63 7 months ago
@Vot63
I don't quite get your point. No, time is not that simple as metric "base ten" system. (but i hope it'll get simplified)
Is "time is not base ten" a valid defence towards imperial units? No, not at all.
Metric: 1km=10hm=100dam=1000m=10000dm=100000cm
Imperial: 1mile≈ 8 furlongs≈ 80 chains ≈1670 yards≈ 5280 feet≈ 63360 inches
Can you see now why it is simple? (And not a "base 12" at all, sir dipstick!)
SEThatered 7 months ago 4
@SEThatered The point being made was that idiots are presenting the 24hr clock as a "metric" system, and you have interjected to support these idiots. You are now trying to slither back to a basic position that we departed from several posts ago. Does that explain the "problem" in simple enough terms for you?
Vot63 7 months ago
@Vot63
~.~' Why you even need to bring time measurement into imperial/metric discussion?
If you want "base ten" timescale, use "Internet Time".
Term "metric time" actually describes sec=1/86400day, and "imperial" was used to brand am/pm.
Time isn't something humans chose - it's an Earths rotation interval, measured by humans.
But with measuring lengths is a different story: you are free to choose.
So why not use a system that has quite a bit more consistency?
SEThatered 7 months ago
@Vot63 Dude the metric system and the imperial system are systems of measurements and weights, not time.
evrekoa 6 months ago
@evrekoa It's a base ten system of division. The 24hr clock "measures" time dickwad.
Vot63 6 months ago
@Vot63 The metric system is not about time.
evrekoa 6 months ago
@MrStoukaph 1:25,25 minutes into the second hour, because 3/24= 1.25/10. easy!
bobbinator37 8 months ago
@MrStoukaph 3:00 :))
feelingames 4 months ago
Why didn't someone make a way of measuring time also divisible by 10? If you see what I mean...
ProfessorBorax 8 months ago