Meanwhile the UK naming their currency after a sex act.
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Whats funny is the oil and gas industry has orders of magnitude worse units. So much so, I would say the imperial system is scared of it.
I love that I'm seeing him in the wild now. One of my favourite creators, no doubts about it.
1 acre
UK 4,046.85642 m²
US 4,046.87261 m²
1 acre (us international acre)= 0.999996 acres(us survey acres).
Even inside the US they use two different measures for acre.
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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
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We all know it's a much better system. Reagan killed our attempt at switching. No one has tried since.
Personally, I use metric for 3D printing, and I use imperial for wood working. Until standardized material sizes change, it doesn't make sense to use metric for wood working. That change needs to come from the top, from government regulation.
Americans choose to meassure thier dicks with the thumb of a british king instead of using meters... or GIGAmeters... there are no correct awnsers, right?
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Yeah, but satellites don't orbit at 2 - 200 megameters, they orbit at 2,000 to 200,000 kilometers for some reason.
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?
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And 1 ml of water weighs 1 gram and has a volume of 1 cubic mm
It's easier to use their names
Deci = 1/10th
Centi = 100th
Milli = 1000th
Micro = 1,000,000th
Nano = 1,000,000,000th
Deca = ×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, kiljoule, 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.
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Metric system >>>>>>> Imperial bullshit