>American logic
What went wrong?
this thread again
We're important enough that if we decided we wanted to start measuring distance in cat farts the rest of you faggots will have to learn it too.
>>74154318
Shoo shoo turkroach
>>74154318
>posting the Jewish version
>>74154454
>not posting the German version
>>74154454
you fucked up
>>74154531
RARE
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>>74154560
KEK
>>74154560
>jewish physics
back into the gas chamber chaim
>>74154318
The funniest thing is when you foreigners bitch about Fahrenheit. You claim to be scientists yet you can't even interpret a linear plot? No wonder we're the only ones who landed on the Moon.
>>74154318
The real answer:
It's important for us to know what we're talking about.
It's not important for you to know what we're talking about, and it's not important for us to know what you're talking about.
We all know how long a mile is, how much 20 Lbs. weighs, and how cold 32 degrees Fahrenheit feels.
If you don't know these things, it's really not our problem. And no, we don't want your metric system, our system works fine, we see no need to replace it.
>But then it would be easier for people in the REST of the world to . . .
Yes, it would be easier on the rest of the world.
And that is also irrelevant.
>>74154712
You didn't land anywhere senpai
>>74154567
>>74154318
Canadians use it too.
It "sounds nice" to use the metric system, but realistically, the numbers are either too big or too small. Am I a hundred and something centimeters, or am I 6 feet? See, small numbers easy to use.
Also, when I write date, I write year, month, day. It's easier, and better for categorization.
>>74154712
No shit, if it ain't a fucking multiple of ten, these motherfuckers can't count to it, apparently.
It's no coincidence that the USA needs to teach Common Core math. With fucked up measurements like that...
You may only post in this thread if your country has landed a man on the moon.
Not so fast rest of the world!
>>74154318
because we aren't fucking sheep. When we MUST use the metric system like when using metric tools, we just call it the fucking mexican system.
>>74154947
Canada is in North America
Canadians are Americans
Metric is still used in the sciences in the US, and it's not like people don't know metric over here
But think about Fahrenheit for example, as opposed to Celsius. Imperial is great for everyday life.
>100 F = very uncomfortably hot
>0 F = very uncomfortably cold
>75 F = comfortable
>100 C = boils water, gives severe burns after short contact
>0 C = cold but not really that bad
>75 C = will still fuck your shit up
>>74154712
>you foreigners
No John, you are the foreigners
We use both, fuck off. We just find Imperial to be more useful for everyday use.
>>74155221
No. I just happened to have American citizenship.
If you're born in Greenland or Canada or Mexico, you're NOT American unless you naturalize in the US..
>>74155261
>arguing about a relative as if it's an absolute centered around you
>>74155329
Sames apply to you.
>>74155437
>mexican intellectuals
I'm not saying he's necessarily THE foreigner
By definition you are a foreigner to anyone who is not from your country
>>74154947
>not knowing your height in both systems
Then again you're probably a manlet so it would be painful to think about.
>>74155231
Imperial is more precise for everyday human measurements. Yuropoors are not people anymore since they can't own guns.
>>74155231
It's just what you are used to in your daily life. 0F tells me nothing and neither does 100F. Let alone that temperatures feel differently depending on humidity levels.
>>74155231
So much this. Celsius I'd fucking retarded for everyday use
>>74155643
>inch
>more precise than a smaller unit of measurement
>>74155904
Is*
>>74155324
Why is this so difficult for europoors and especially central and south americans to understand?
It's really embarassing when south americans do it. WE WUZ AMERICANS
No, your a spic. Stop it.
>>74154712
>we're the only ones who landed on the Moon
. . . and buried a probe in the North Pole of Mars at triple the intended velocity because half the NASA team was working in ft/s and the other half in m/s. There's not even a constant in the linear conversion equation for those two.
>the citizens of the protectorate are complaining again.
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>>74155939
We don't have that small problem down under our waist, friend.
>>74157050
>dick is only 6
>meanwhile, australian dick is 15
>>74155231
Just a comment. I can use both systems with equal facility, but back in the day the Imperial system required a lot more mental arithmetic. Because the units were so heterogeneous, there was less chance of making a power-of-ten error. One had a feel for the size of each unit - thou, 1/64, inch, yard, chain, mile or dwt, oz, lb, stone, cwt, ton etc. This feel is not so obvious with powers of 10. We put something into a calculator and hope the result is not 10x too big or too small, without any feel for what order of magnitude to expect. Before the days of calculators one would do a rough parallel mental calculation alongside the slide rule, so you always had the answer within about 20%, even for arbitrary expressions raised to arbitrary powers.
>>74154567
>>74154318
with these fucked up and edgy measurement conventions it's a wonder of nature that the americlaps count in a decadic system. i mean why not go all the way and teach children to count in 7-adic system? or binary?
>>74154560
Fukn laffed
>>74157798
>binary
Why should we be teaching them social constructs?
Who cares. Freedomheit is awesome. Metric is autistic.
>>74154318
It actually comes from a time where there were no computers, and people had to do math themselves. It was easier to work with things like powers of 12 rather than say 10/100/1000 because more things divide into 12 than 10 (1/2/3/4/6) rather than 10 (1/2/5)
>>74157934
kek
>>74157798
>i mean why not go all the way and teach children to count in 7-adic system? or binary?
What are their advantage over 10 base again? If anything 12 base have some.
>>74158149
This is the type of post that you see once a week browsing the sludge 2 hours a day that makes it worth browsing this shit board desu
Thx actually learned something
>>74158149
13 X 10 is much easier than 13 X 12
>>74156807
there is a linear conversion from ft to metres
>>74158258
Aмepикaнcкий шпиoн cyкa!
>>74155939
I always measure to the nearest nanometer to be sure
Guys! Millimeters were invented by french scientists so they could measure their dicks.
>>74158379
>not measuring your dick length down to the planck length
How the fuck will you solve disputes like that?
>>74158284
People were dividing things into thirds, quarters, sixths more than they were moving up or down orders of magnitude
>>74158258
you might laugh, but the reason base 10 is used universally is because we have 10 fingers. it's simply the most natural. you go up from 1 to 10, or shifted from 0 to 9 and after reaching it, you increase the 10^1 counter by 1 and so on. and anything above base 10 becomes obscure since you begin to use letters. in base 12 you go from 0 to 9, then 10, A, B. how fucked up is it when you count B-A and say it's of course 1!
>>74158149
>and people had to do math themselves.
Try to convert square feet into square acres without calculator and suddenly suicide sounds like a nice option.
>because more things divide into 12 than 10 (1/2/3/4/6)
True dozen is a savior fo illiterate popel. You can pay a shilling to 3 negros and they can divide it equally even if they don't know math. Just put coins into 3 same size piles. Give them 100 cents and they will kill each others. Problems start when calculations require something more then dividing dozen into qual parts but well illiterate people don't need that.
>you might laugh, but the reason base 10 is used universally is because we have 10 fingers
I know. Both 10 and 12 are small enough to be comprehended by human mind 10 has advantage as we have 10 fingers. 12 has more integer dividers. Both are viable.
>and anything above base 10 becomes obscure since you begin to use letters
Nope. You still use numbers. 11 and 12 will get their own single letter number.
>>74154947
>Am I a hundred and something centimeters
but you wouldn't say this, you'd say 'im 1.8 meters tall' or whatever. That's no worse than 'im 5 foot and 9 and a half inches'.
>>74158617
>square acres
>>74159025
where would you use different base systems in anything but computers? we could argue how the numbers 10 and 11 are represented in base 12, but the point stands that the times table completely changes. it's not like you just add 2 numbers and count as usual since 12 in base 10 is not the same as 12 in base 12. we only need base 10 and base 16 for computers, everything else is autism and for burgers.
>>74159288
don't try to reason with these autists germany
>>74158617
>Sqare Acres
>>74159288
>where would you use different base systems
Yes you need only one. The question is the choice of the base. 10 or 12 are most viable options.
>>74159192
>>74159420
Yeah I know my probe just crashed into the Moon.
>>74159441
well perhaps you are smarter than me, because i think that all other systems are too counter-intuitive for every-day purposes. could you count 9x9 in base 12 without looking it up? if you can't, how do you expect ordinary people to do it?
>>74159399
truly the nation of chess champions.
What if I told you the metric is often used in america at our discretion. We don't let Brussels tell us how to think.
>>74154318
The mm/dd/yyyy isn't THAT stupid, it's just following the ranges from smallest to biggest, 1-12 < 1-30 < any
>>74154318
>toxic food
>have to pay for healthcare
double clusterfuck american logic
