>inb4 Retards implying that Imperial system is better

>>693102358
It's not american.

>>693102530
/thread

>>693102530
>american
>superior
pick one faggot

>>693102530
You mean british
Even britbongs abandoned this stupid ass system, you guys are holding onto garbage just because you feel like it's your own.

>>693102358
You cannot perform post enlightenment math & geometry with a base 10 system. For example, radian based mathematics (ancient pyramids et cetera) is only possible in systems where unit conversion ratios are not locked, but open. From any given unit in the imperial system you can count and multiply in octaves of base 3, 4, 6, 12. This is much more diverse than the metric system. Engineering tolerances can also be based on unit octaves instead of significant digits. For example, even though .0625 is four decimal places of accuracy it represents a 16th of one unit. If that unit is 1 inch then four decimal places of accuracy doesn't mean shit because a 16th of an inch is huge. It's all relative.

The metric system is for people who cannot grasp the concept of multiple levels/ layers of units. If you suck at fractions you might support the metric system. You cannot express geometric relationships in relation to other geometry on the piece using the metric system because the metric system can only break things down into tenths. This means the decimal value will never relate to a whole fraction, so you cannot derive\project octave values relative to the feature on the part.

You'd have to be a draftsman or engineer to notice the difference between these systems. Ideally working for a firm that switches between the two because of International proposals. The sad thing is that once the world is converted to the metric system the truth about the Tetragrammaton will be forgotten, because you literally cannot execute certain functions in the metric system that you need to decode ancient math. Pro-metric kids are brainwashed, they don't know any better than to be prejudiced against something they don't understand. That's how our corporate media raised them.

>>693104474
Damn, this dude just shut down the whole thread. Take that you metric cucks.

The Imperial System is Base 4, while Metric is Base 10.

One's not better than the other, they're just different and both are useful for different things. Machinists, for example, prefer to deal with Imperial (since the units are practically scaled [as in there is very little application to have the level of granularity that metric necessarily has]).

Different strokes for different folks.

If you want to start a debate based on unit granularity and ease of measurement, why not just suggest everybody use Plancks for things? :)

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>>693104474
Dude, what the fuck?
Brainwashed?
What are you on about?

>>693104474
Lol didnt read

>>693104977
Retard detected.

>>693103177
>>693104977
>>693105100
>>693105211
Dub magic

>>693104474
>The sad thing is that once the world is converted to the metric system the truth about the Tetragrammaton will be forgotten, because you literally cannot execute certain functions in the metric system that you need to decode ancient math.

Is anti-metric pasta real?

>>693104474
american faggot the metric system is used by the entire scientific world while your impereal shit is made for retards not able to understand any kind of logic

>>693105667
>retards not able to understand any kind of logic

That does sound a lot like the American engineers I've met

>>693102358
Metric system is too confusing.

How long is a Meter? Nobody knows!

>>693105920
hehe

>>693105920
PROTIP: It's approximately the vertical distance from the floor to a standard doorknob.

>>693104474
This must be the stupidest thing I've had the pleasure of seeing today.

>>693106039

That's neat.

>>693105920
1 meter=100 centimeter=1000 millimeter you american bastards cant be that stupid

>>693102358
It is.That's why the yucking science community doesn't touch imperial units

>>693102358
It isnt.That's why the science community doesn't touch imperial units

>>693105920
The metre is defined as the distance travelled by light in (1/299 792 458) of a second

>>693103177

No we use both

>>693102358
it's not. although, the left image looks kinda nice. Imperial system is art, metric system is science. They can coexist as long as imperial isn't used anywhere important.

>>693106390
>How long is a meter?
>100 100ths of a Meter. (You)

Fucking wat?

>>693107702
retard

>>693105667

and who has been to the moon
taken close up photos of Pluto
is in orbit around Jupiter ?

>>693107702
Hope you're not serious...

>>693107925
NASA, which was pioneered by German rocket scientists, and uses the Metric system

>>693105076
It's not base 4.
It's not base anything, that's why it's retarded.

>>693104474
>>693105076
not understanding that numerical system != system of measurement

>>693106039
Note:
This only works for metre high doorknobs

>>693108077
this. USA only got the rocket technology because germans perfected it during WW2 and the scientists left the country. Had germany won the war and had reason to go to space they'd be able to do so, probably without the "kaputnik" incident.

>>693104474
I got an A-level A* grade in further maths and A* also in advanced mathematics, and can confirm this made no sense.

Is this some kind of pasta?

>>693102358
It's French in origan

>>693108293

binary is the only true correct system of measurement

>>693107925
Who crashed a multi-million dollar satellite orbiting mars earlier this year because they used the imperial system instead of metric?

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>>693107367
The left image looks remarkably like Jew magic
> the truth revealed

>>693105076
so why aren't americans using base 4 math? That's the reason it's retarded. Metric system is adjusted for scientific and everyday uses whereas Imperial one is just random approximations. Also >>693108293

>>693104474
TRIGGERED TRIGGERED TRIGGERED TRIGGERED BRITBONGS TRIGGERED

>>693107925
fake achivements doesnt count american bastard

Where's metric time?
This whole, "60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week" business is just too confusing for me.

>>693102358
It's grossly unintuitive.

Try to imagine 44 cm.
Now 18 inches, or a foot and a half.
Which is easier?

Now why don't you go land some men on the moon or something?

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>>693104474
>Tetragrammaton
Isn't that the base for the clerics in equilibrium?

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>>693108748
The french planned it, but nobody decided to implement it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

>>693108574
>earlier this year

Nigger, that was years ago. You were in diapers when that happened.

>>693108875
44cm is easier tbh

>>693108875
wtf are you talking about?

>>693104474
>because the metric system can only break things down into tenths

1/9 metre; have i broken the metric system?


>because you literally cannot execute certain functions in the metric system that you need to decode ancient math

decimals, learn'em.

you can't express everything in a fucking fraction, not even in the imperial system.
but no the earth has to revolve around your shitty system because muh pie slices

>>693108337
All doors are 2m in Europe, all knobs are in the middle.

>>693102847
this so hard

>>693108902
Joogle says ''Tet·ra·gram·ma·ton
ˌtetrəˈɡraməˌtän/
noun
the Hebrew name of God transliterated in four letters as YHWH or JHVH and articulated as Yahweh or Jehovah.''

>>693108959
Why not? Metric is the superior system. Decimal time is a base ten system.
Is it because people are used to the conventional way and it's really not that difficult to understand?

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>>693106390
Yes we are you racist misogynistic pig

>>693108875

How the fuck am I supposed to know what an inch looks like? Never used that in my life.

>>693109322

>Equilibrium is set in 2072 in Libria, a city state established by the survivors of World War III, which devastated the world, where a totalitarian government requires all citizens to take daily injections of "Prozium II" to suppress emotion and encourage obedience. All emotionally stimulating material has been banned, and "Sense Offenders" – those who fail to take their Prozium – are put to death, as the government claims that the cause of all wars and violence is emotion. Libria is governed by the Tetragrammaton Council, led by "Father", who is seen only on giant video screens throughout the city.

I was right, jewzebel.

>>693108748
times has been measured this way for centuries. In order for us to switch to decimal time we'd need to reinvent scientific measurements and redefine the definition of seconds, minutes and hours, and possibly everything else. Unless we do that there's no reason to switch to decimal time because it works the way it is now.

>>693104977
Yeah, and you probably believe in Sasquatch too. Get out redneck dumbass

>>693109632
>reinvent scientific measurements
american logic for sticking with imperial measurement down to a t.

>>693109322
>>693109610
Didn't you guys see the jew magic?
>>693108626

>>693109744
I'm not an american. I'm just saying it makes no sense to change how time is measured because there's no way it would be accepted globally. Look at americans, they haven't even accepted metric system yet.

>>693109632
So there's no reason to change everything when you have a system that already works, even if it would show marked ease of use and pay for itself exponentially within a few years.
Is that what you're saying?
But it's inferior!

>>693102358
Because I like using King Richard's foot as a basis of measurement. Seriously, it's quite easy.

1 foot= 12 inches, 1 inch = ten centimeters (so they sorta mix) a yard is 3 feet.

Easy!

>>693104474
none of the amerifags can convert using the imperial system in their head

>>693106456
>>693106404
Retard detected

>>693104474
> only superior men can know the difference
>I'm a superior man

faggot

>>693109975
an inch is actually 2.54 cm

The only correct measuring unit is a smoot.

>>693109891
There's no advantage to a different scale of time though.

>>693104474
damn.. how high are you?

>>693109891
>>693109868
As I've said, you first need to make everyone in the whole world agree with this. I've actually thought about decimal time for a while. It's possible, but only if we change the definition of a second, because right now you have around 60*60**24*365 seconds in a year.

>>693110165
no, it's radditz

>>693110217
But metric is superior! It has to be base 10! It's easier to convert!

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>>693104474
>Expressing a value in fractions is more accurate then expressing them in a decimal number
Okay, this guy is actually retarded.

>>693110144
Oh damn, you're right. Then what the hell is there ten of in an inch? Can't be millimetres...

>>693109975
How many inches in 12.75 feet?
If it took you more than 3 seconds you mentally calculate it, you just failed something a 12 year old can do with metric.

That's why it's retarded.

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>>693104474
Insignificant. This map however will wake you up from your delusions.

>>693110325
You are retarded

>>693110455
I suck at math anyways.

Fuck this thread, Im going to either /hm/ or History and Humanities

>>693110228
So sometimes it's just easier to stick with what works, even if it's arbitrary or illogical. I see.

>>693102358
Does the US use the imperial system now?
I could've sworn I measured in the US customary system

>>693110612
WE 1# YEAH FUCK YOU BRITIMCBRITBONG

>>693110634
Because I want a system of measurement to be changed to metric?

>>693110663
it is, but that doesn't make it right, and we should switch to more logical systems of measurement

>>693109975
1 inch equals 10 centi... Are you kidding or simply handicapped?

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>>693102358
If you're to simple minded to figure out the imperial system that's ok. We can get you some nice velcro shoes.

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>>693104474
> You cannot perform post enlightenment math & geometry with a base 10 system.
The base number of a numbering system doesn't prevent you from doing anything.

> For example, radian based mathematics (ancient pyramids et cetera) is only possible in systems where unit conversion ratios are not locked, but open.
I swear I've done radian calculations with base 10.

>From any given unit in the imperial system you can count and multiply in octaves of base 3, 4, 6, 12
What about 11? what about 13? Doing some dandy division by 3 is arbitrary. I can come up with a retarded system to cover 7's. Should we all use that then?

> The metric system is for people who cannot grasp the concept of multiple levels/ layers of units.
You seriously underestimate how useful it is working in base 10. Jesus, have you ever done programming? We seem to get by without your feet->yards and all that stupid shit. Funny how the most mathematically intense profession doesn't use imperial twatulations.

>because the metric system can only break things down into tenths
Decimals you faggot. This also doesn't mean shit because with your system there are numbers in which cannot be gotten by divisions or watever. It doesn't mean anything, it just means you added more stupid shit to maybe cover a divide-by-3 or divide-by-7, something we have covered by decimals. Even then there-are-numbers-you-do-not-cover.

> Pro-metric kids are brainwashed, they don't know any better than to be prejudiced against something they don't understand. That's how our corporate media raised them.
Oh you're redpill trash I see. Move along everyone. Nothing to see here.

>>693110854
no human rights for american cucks like you go and suck obamas dick or something

>>693105920
1 Meter for americunts- It's 4 quarts divided by 2 spoons in power of 0.5 water droplets.

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Americans have their measurements all wrong. Look at the chart, Imperial measurements make zero sense and don't have any set boundries. Meanwhile the Metric system is rational and easy to read. At least we Metric system users dont use ODD NUMBERS TO CONVERT UNITS

>>693110418
Nothing. Inches are broken into halves, quarters, eighths, and sixteenths

>>693110929
You say that, knowing it's true, but will just shrug your shoulders and keep on using the old system, yes?
HAVE I MADE MY FUCKING POINT YET?

>>693110411
sorry bud, hes right and your wrong. Punch 1/9 into your calculator. What do you see? Thats right, a repeating decimal. You could just right the decimal out to a certain number of places, but its not accurate. Come back when you pass 7th grade math

>>693111204
INB4 MIDDLE FINGER

>>693110857
Each unit of time divides into the next by 60.

Each imperial unit divides by differing amounts per unit, often not evenly divisible at all.

There's a huge difference there

>>693111055
Dam you Rekt him haha, imperial faggs GTFOOH!

>>693111368
>your wrong

come back when you pass 3rd grade English

>>693111466
> Each unit of time divides into the next by 60.
Arbitrary. We could invent a new time system to avoid this. It means nothing.
> Humans caused a problem that this crappy system solved, so we should keep this crappy system.

>>693104474
You wrote so much to say so many bs.

>>693111368
Don't tell me this stuff is taught in 7th grade for amerifats? We calculate fractals in grade 5.

>>693111466
Oh, you mean like 60 hour days, 60 day months, and 60 month years? Gotcha.

>>693111362
no, you haven't. Just because I, an individual, know that we must change the system doesn't mean everyone else understands that. Therefore, I can only tell people we should change, hoping scientists will realize that and change the system. The only way to change the system is for people to understand it needs to be changed.

>>693111646
And 60 year decades.

>>693111368
Yeah but intelligent people from europe use 1/9 meters then but you stupid american pigs are to dumb to learn anything so go and wait for mother russia to conquer you

>>693104474
tl;dr

guys why doesn't the Imperial system follow any reason, logic or knowledge?

>>693111865
because it's ancient and only idiots would still use it

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>>693110612
mexico final beat u.s.a at something

>>693111368
So how bout you try to write 0.267 as a fraction then?

>>693104474

made me reply, 2/10 (That converts to ~1.8 British Years Sterling or 29 yards Fahrenheit.)

>>693111646
If you bring days and years into it, you'll never have a standard base timing system, because they are set by rotation and revolution of the earth.

You don't use time measurement in the same way as a physical measurement.
You're just saying this shit because you think it somehow makes the retardedness of imperial measurements justified.

Nobody uses Imperial because it's superior, they use it because that's what they were raised with and they fear change.

Carter tried to get us on the metric system back in the '70's, but instead of just switching over, they tried to teach 'conversion.' They tried to teach people these three digit decimal conversion factors and people went, "I'm not doin' no 'rithmetic in my head every time I go shopping! THE DEAL IS OFF!"

Meanwhile if they had just switched over, people would learn, "Okay, a meter's a little bigger than a yard, a liter is a little under two pints, a pound is about half a kilo," they'd just get used to it.

>>693112006
267/1000

>>693111687
You just keep proving my point.

>>693112006
267/1000

>>693107925

India?

>>693111942
>>693111942

guys why don't I post something and then respond to it myself

get the fuck out of here

>>693112110
so what's your point then?

>>693108626

What in the fuck? This can't be real.

>>693111368

Try writing an irrational number like π as a fraction then you fucking faggot.

>>693112222
wow some retard actualy thinks we're samefagging

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Depending which side you see it from.

If you start with metric > imperial, it seems easy.
If you start with imperial > metric, it looks chaotic.

I'm scandinavian, thus using metric. The imperial system makes no sense to me; like I'd assume americans think of metric.

Odd though: NASA/ESA uses metric meassurement... But airplanes use imperial.

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>>693111966
FAGGOT

>>693112101
>>693112180
WOAW fractions too good.

>>693112006
why would I fuck up that beautiful decimal by converting it to a fraction?

>>693112274
Americans understand that the metric system is superior and easier to utilize in almost every application, but haven't switched to it anyways, be it right, logical, expensive, or any other reason.

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>>693112306
Silly USAsians with their secret jew overlords

>>693104474
10 > 3, 4, 6 and 12

fuck your shit

>>693102358
because i grew up on the imperial system and im fucking awesome.

>>693111646
>60 seconds
>split into groups of five.
>5x60=360
>all the degrees on a circle
>all the degrees on a clock
go inside ants?
I think not.

>>693112628

The imperial system is Anglostani though.

>>693112597
but it isn't difficult at all, which is my point. They're just being retarded because they don't like change. People would adjust to it in less than a year.

>>693111368
That repeating decimal is just as accurate as one ninth, they are the same number expressed different ways. Fractions are actually at a disadvantage here, because they are much worse at outlining irrational numbers like pi or phi, seeing as the more accurate you want your fractional approximation to be, the bigger the numbers in your fraction have to be, whereas decimals can just calculate the next decimal space.

>>693112092
Hours, minutes, and seconds are also set by the rotation of the earth. Why can't they be numbers divisible by 10?

>>693112853
difficult to switch*

>>693112665
More proof that only idiots like imperial

>>693112446
wow I'll keep typing in all lowercase without punctuation

Work on your damage control.

>>693111368
I agree that it would be easier if we had 12 fingers, but how is that relevant? Its imperial vs metric, not duodecimal vs metric.

>>693112890
the seasons would be out of date after a few months

>>693112890
Seconds are actually set by the wavelength of the radiation off of a particular isotope of cesium now iirc.

>>693112890
No they aren't.
They were based to fit, not set by it.

We could call 0.5 of a second the new second, and a day will now have 48 hours in it.
Doesn't change the time it took.for the earth to rotate once.

>>693113057
everyone does that, just the most fucking random, unrelated insult

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>>693102358
>mfw amerifags can't organize basic shit

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>>693108337
Kekked pretty hard at this one.

It has no system of measurement close to a foot. A centimeter is tiny and a meter is huge. Nothing good in between.

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>>693104474
That has nothing to do with the fact that it is objectively better than the imperial systems arbitrary incriments.

Having a base 10 is better for anything any human is likely to have to deal with.
Unless we travel to other dimensions or something, we're way better off with metric, as opposed to imperial.


Just because the 0.00000001% of the population who are geometrists don't prefer base 10, how does that equate to "Imperial is better than metric"?

>>693113673
decimeter is 10 centimeters. But nobody uses it, why not say 40 cm?

>>693113057
we're not samefagging you fucking butthurt american.

>>693113673
Technically you could use decimeters, nobody ever does, but you could.

>>693108875
Ok similarly,
Try to think of 100 centimeters
Is that easier to see as 1 meter or 3.28084 feet?
You have no point

>>693108875
It's only easier because you grew up using the imperial system. If you had grown up using the metric system, you would know roughly what two meters looks like, but if someone said six feet to you you would have no idea what the fuck they are talking about.

>>693113673
what would you need a foot for? People just say half/quarter of a meter even when approximating. Or in this case it would be around 30cm.

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The Truth is that the imperial system is useless and outdated. Americans know this subconsciously but are to full of stubborn pride. Only cucks will disagree

>>693114204
same here, I thought foot was around 0.6-1.2 meters until I looked it up just now.

>>693114406
This. They're conservative scum.