10 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Apr \ parent \ on: Why do Americans put so much store in their measurement system? ideasfromtheedge
1 liter is not 1 cubic meter. The conversion is 1 cubic centimeter = 1 ml, so 1 liter = 1 cubic decimeter.
Those points are all about convenience of doing mental conversions, but there are conveniences of dividing English standard units: 12 and 16 are both more divisible than 10. It's all entirely subjective about which is more rational.
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You can see how they didn't do the "rational" thing here, though. It should have been the conversion you mistakenly wrote, but they knew that was too unintuitive, so they fudged it.
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This is really what I'm really trying to angle at; "they". Why is it so triggering, tribal, and woven into identity (or at least it appears that way to me)?
Also, could you pass me a 2mm allen key, please? Sorry, I mean a 5/64 one.
Maybe it's because I'm not brought up on it but arguably metric measurements more human-centric when you get down small.
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I’m not using “they” in a tribalistic way. I’m just referring to the people who designed the metric system.
As the scale gets really large and really small, I think metric is a lot easier to use.
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