I’ve said it on this platform before: I will build furniture in inches until my hands can’t hold a chisel anymore. The inch system arose around the needs of carpentry and woodworking, it works in base 12, which is outright superior to base 10, especially when you divide by 3 and 4 more often than by 5.
Also, the closest tape measure I have to hand is my 5m metric tape. I build things in metric, just…not furniture.
What do you do when a piece you’re cutting isnt exactly a foot, say, 11 or 13 inches? I know nothing about woodworking, but I’m assuming there isnt a unified standard to make everything match to the nearest whole foot, so then this whole base 12 thing goes out the window, or am I missing something here?
And yet the cowards refuse to use megagrams. If SI prefixes are so great use them consistently rather than stealing other unit names and giving them another definition.
Also metric byte sizes deserve the fires of hell. Powers of 2 or get out.
We don’t use mega grams because kilo is the SI unit. And there’s no such thing as metric byte. That’s the sales department finding out that 104 MB is a larger number than 100 MiB.
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.
And 1 ml of water weighs 1 gram and has a volume of 1 cubic mm
It’s obvious that there’s 1760 yards in a mile.
There’s 22 yards in a chain, which we can all remember because of the 22 yard line in rugby.
There are 10 chains in a furlong, which fans of metric can’t complain about.
There are 8 furlongs in a mile, just like there are 8 pints in a gallon.
And 22x10x8 = 11x10x16 and 11 is easy to multiply by in your head, so it’s really very simple to get to 1760.
/s
this but unironically.
You’ve been hit by…
You’ve been struck by…
A smooth metric system
Annie, are you Oakley? Are you Oakley, Annie?
22 yds to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong, 8 furlongs to a mile.
Uh, no.
10 feet = 1 decafoot
100 centiyards = 1 yard
1x10^18 attoacres = 1 acre
I’m gonna start estimating distances in millimiles.
1 millimile ~ 5 feet, 3 and 23/64 inches.
makes perfect sense.
I kinda want a hexadecimal version of the metric system.
Measurement system doesn’t have anything to do with numerical base. You can use any base with any system.
16m = Fm
which is pretty ass if you ask me
Sir, this is a Wendy’s, we measure in common units around here…
I prefer absolute units and natural units.
Natural units? You mean like cup sizes? A/B/C/D/DD… ?
shopping for a new mailbox today, they used number of baseballs it can fit as the units and/or basketball for the big ones
Meanwhile the UK naming their currency after a sex act.
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?
0.0000000003448 GIGAmeters just doesn’t sound that impressive…
3,5 10-10 Gm
Also, notice that ypu can round it up a bit…
And, who meassures his dick… you just need an honest aproximation.
Exemple: “my dick? You mean from the root? I think it’s just a fraction of a gigameter…” which is a 100% honest and humble response.
Edit: one can also use astronomic units… 1 AU =~ 150 Gm
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
If you consider hiragana and katakana to be different writing systems, then English lower and upper case letters are two different writing systems, too.
Not that it makes Kanji any easier to learn.
Sorry, I haven’t gotten to the katakana part yet. Are you saying they’re all the same sounds as hiragana, just slightly different shapes?
あ and ア are pronounced the same. Katakana is used for foreign words mainly if I’m not mistaken.
Pretty much, yeah.
how many drams to a fluid troy ounce?
