Why still using the imperial system? : memes

[+] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I really like Farenheit system for temperatures. 0 is really cold and 100 is really hot, but both survivable. It's a human-centric system.

0C is the temperature that water freezes, which is good but temperatures more often go negative with that system. 100C is boiling so you'd be dead.

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I've read that it is more easily divisible than metric.

Divide a meter by 3 or 4 and get ugly numbers but a foot or yard divide by 3 or 4 quite cleanly. And so on.

Depending on your application this can be very helpful.

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[+] [email protected] -24 points 8 months ago (53 children)

It's easier for handling real things.

Try doing woodwork in feet and inches for a day. Try it in metric for a day. You'll see what I mean.

It was crafted for the human-scale, whereas metric was worked out on paper by French philosophers.

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