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[–] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (62 children)

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).

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.

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also, US Customary units share many of the same terms as Imperial, but the actual quantities differ.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even more fun is that US customary units are explicitly defined by their metric equivalents. So the US is using metric whether they like it or not, they just slap pointless conversion factors on top.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And it's been this way since 1893. The US customary system has been sneaky metric that whole time.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] Schemen110676@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day 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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[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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"

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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