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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Metric system:

  • Tons of great subdivisions
  • Continuously and exclusively use the same two or three prefixes for everything ever
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Hey, we use hectares sometimes, which are hm^2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tons of great subdivisions

2,5 and 10 is "Tons"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The world is flat, birds aren't real, and there are only three prefixes in the metric system. You get it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All the prefixes are just base ten though, so who cares? They don't add more subdivisions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you're trying to make a point, I missed it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You said the metric system has tons of great subdivision which is objectively false. Prefixes in the metric system only multiply by 10, which by definition does not and cannot add additional sub-divisions. The point is that while the metric system is a useful system of measurement in very limited situations, the biggest advocates for it have no idea why they like it, and are ignorant of it's deficiency's.

Let's try to raise the discourse a bit. Divisors are absolutely the most important part of a human-centric numeric and unit system, and the metric system, being a base 10 system, absolutely sucks at that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elaborate on how it's "objectively false" that there are plenty of subdivisions, especially lots of subdivisions that aren't frequently used.

This should be good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

10 has 2 divisors, or "subdivisions," that is not "plenty" that is 2. Thus it is false, objectively, to claim that 2 and 5 are "plenty."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Lololol if that were the question, there would only be one unit. Fortunately, the question is actually "how many times can you divide a unit by ten"

Thanks for playing.