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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.

how many drams to a fluid troy ounce?

Sigh, I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this, I'm sure. After a 16 year career as a machinist in the US and having to easily change between both systems daily, one system is dozenal and fractional and one is decimal based. Dozenal and fractional are both easier and faster when you start thinking that way. A mile isn't 1760 yards precisely, it's 5,280 feet. 5,280 / 12 = 440. It's dozenal. All units, and I mean all units are arbitrary. Someone just decided x means y. Whether it's "this amount of silicon atoms is 1kg" or "this specific length of barley corn is 1 inch" - they're both defined by a decision that someone (or a group) just kinda made.

Metric system is easy? Only if you can do Latin, Greek, AND math at the same time!

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.

Uh, no.

10 feet = 1 decafoot

100 centiyards = 1 yard

1x10^18 attoacres = 1 acre

Sir, this is a Wendy's, we measure in common units around here...

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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

1 acre

UK 4,046.85642 m²

US 4,046.87261 m²

Meanwhile the UK naming their currency after a sex act.

Yeah, but satellites don't orbit at 2 - 200 megameters, they orbit at 2,000 to 200,000 kilometers for some reason.

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.

A sixth of a foot?

Now do a sixth of a meter lol.

Base ten is not the flex you think

I fucking love the Key and Peele (or was it SNL?) founding fathers skit about this. 😆