Metric is more organised. Imperial is based on ancient measurements and the lengths of dead peoples' body parts. Kelvin FTW!
Poll
Metric or Imperial?
| Metric | 82% | 82% - 91 | ||||
| Imperial | 17% | 17% - 19 | ||||
| Total: 110 | ||||||
Metric revolves around base 10 measurements.DesertFox423 wrote:
For everything else pounds, gallons, miles, and Fahrenheit are much better.
Weight - gram and kilogram
Volume - litre and kilolitre
Distnace - metre and kilometre
And hut dam, they are interchangeable...
1mL of water is 1g is 1cm3
A lot easier.
Mcminty.
How many stones do you all weigh?
It depends. Are you talking pebbles, rocks, boulders or Gibraltar?
Yeah......I know...............mcminty wrote:
Metric revolves around base 10 measurements.DesertFox423 wrote:
For everything else pounds, gallons, miles, and Fahrenheit are much better.
Weight - gram and kilogram
Volume - litre and kilolitre
Distnace - metre and kilometre
And hut dam, they are interchangeable...
1mL of water is 1g is 1cm3
A lot easier.
Mcminty.
I am familiar with the system....Prefixes galore. Used mainly by scientists here. However, I still haven't found any drill bit for a hole 2.54 cm in diameter.
Hot damn, this system takes a tiny bit of memorization which isn't hard at all to do.
1 mile= 5280 feet= 1760 yards; 1 acre= 43,560 ft2=4840 yds2
Atmospheric pressure is *gasp* 1 atmosphere instead of 101 kPA
Anyone with basic scientific experience has used the damn thing, I've developed my ideas on it.
Metric just makes more sense over all. So Ill vote that.
I would go for Imperial... Seriously... maybe because i'm in quebec... and heard of Metric from grade 1... i'm Fking borred of those cm..mm...M... Km...
So... Imperial is a great one... In construction, Feets are more used that CM or So... You'll never or almost never hear some one from the construction department saying like... gemme a 128 CM stick... Or... Gemme a 1.4 M shaitz... Feets/Inches are more on..
So... Imperial is a great one... In construction, Feets are more used that CM or So... You'll never or almost never hear some one from the construction department saying like... gemme a 128 CM stick... Or... Gemme a 1.4 M shaitz... Feets/Inches are more on..
I use both. Where's that option? Each has their place.
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-10-13 21:11:31)
i agree i can fully understand both systems, altough for accuracy metric is the way to go. but for estimating stuff ( from point a - b ) i prefer imperial. but overall metric is still betterunnamednewbie13 wrote:
I use both. Where's that option? Each has their place.
Partially on the subject, wtf is with driving on the left side of the road?
Talk about ancient practices....
Talk about ancient practices....
Yard lenght of both arms exteneded. Fathom or something is the length of one arm exteneded. Theres a ton of things like that. That is one majur thing it has over the Metric system. You can use it almost anywhere.
Metric > Imperial, easier conversions, no BS and shit.
Every day life: Imperial
Scientific stuff: Metric
Over all, I think that meteric is a better system but I've used imperial all my life so I have a better idea of what you're talking about when you use miles rather than kilometers.
Scientific stuff: Metric
Over all, I think that meteric is a better system but I've used imperial all my life so I have a better idea of what you're talking about when you use miles rather than kilometers.
As a Physicist, I can tell you that... for sure... SI is FAR superior to the imperial system.
Case 1: In E&M the SI units are coulombs, amperes, volts, watts, henries, teslas... Aside from horsepower for watts, does any one else know just ONE of the imperial equivalents?
Case 2: While computers COULD be made to think in base 8 or 12 or whatever, humans think in base 10. Thats just the way we learn things. So a system of measurement based on base 10 is intrinsically more intuitive to humans than some extremely varied system.
Case 3: Metric DOES work on larger scales, its just different... tough!
Ex. miles = kilometers| Thousands of miles = megameters|feet = decameters or meters...
Case 1: In E&M the SI units are coulombs, amperes, volts, watts, henries, teslas... Aside from horsepower for watts, does any one else know just ONE of the imperial equivalents?
Case 2: While computers COULD be made to think in base 8 or 12 or whatever, humans think in base 10. Thats just the way we learn things. So a system of measurement based on base 10 is intrinsically more intuitive to humans than some extremely varied system.
Case 3: Metric DOES work on larger scales, its just different... tough!
Ex. miles = kilometers| Thousands of miles = megameters|feet = decameters or meters...
in baseball, 100 kph sounds so fast...but it's acutally only around 62 mph...i can throw in the high 70's mph
Last edited by .|microphage (2006-10-13 22:33:21)
metric for everything except height, cm's are to small to measure height i think.
well since im in canadia land i learned both :S but i do prefer metric.... just seems easier
What, they make your penis feel smaller?twiistaaa wrote:
Metric for everything except height, CM's are to small to measure height i think.
Btw, /Grammar.
All temperatures should be measured in Kelvins.
in Canada we officially r metric but we use both really, i prefer metric when i comes to certain things like temperature and km but i like imperial when it comes to height and volume
Whilst I think it is inarguable that Metric is superior to Imperial, the problem is conversion.
The base measurement for metric is metres (as any science student will know)twiistaaa wrote:
metric for everything except height, cm's are to small to measure height i think.
Last edited by Bubbalo (2006-10-13 23:58:53)
Metric is a base-10 system, and we have 10 digits on our hands and in our number system, so metric is a bit easier/more logical to use.
The only thing I use imperial for is someones height (he's 6'4") or buying weed (know where I can score an ounce?)
There are some metric measurements which aren't often used in the real world (eg. decimetres), but by and large its generally a lot easier to use.
The only thing I use imperial for is someones height (he's 6'4") or buying weed (know where I can score an ounce?)
There are some metric measurements which aren't often used in the real world (eg. decimetres), but by and large its generally a lot easier to use.
exactly , the 10-base makes it generally easier than the imperial measurements with their abnormal scales. I even use the metric system when i can in the US, I really wish we used the metric more in the US because its just plain easier to work withPubic wrote:
Metric is a base-10 system, and we have 10 digits on our hands and in our number system, so metric is a bit easier/more logical to use.
The only thing I use imperial for is someones height (he's 6'4") or buying weed (know where I can score an ounce?)
There are some metric measurements which aren't often used in the real world (eg. decimetres), but by and large its generally a lot easier to use.
And the base 10 system works better for smaller measurements.Bubbalo wrote:
Whilst I think it is inarguable that Metric is superior to Imperial, the problem is conversion.The base measurement for metric is metres (as any science student will know)twiistaaa wrote:
metric for everything except height, cm's are to small to measure height i think.
Check here for all base 10 units of measurement
Simple?
Mcminty.
I'm use to the Imperial system. I don't mind Metric at all, I understand it very well being very useful in Math. Although as usmarine said I believe Kelvin should be used for Temperatures.
Thing is I'm so use to the Imperial system that switching would be very weird. Like I'd see 100kph on a speed limit and instanly assume 100mph so I'd have a lot of speeding tickets.
@kimaera: About 14 Stones here. 1 stone is 14 pounds right?
Thing is I'm so use to the Imperial system that switching would be very weird. Like I'd see 100kph on a speed limit and instanly assume 100mph so I'd have a lot of speeding tickets.
@kimaera: About 14 Stones here. 1 stone is 14 pounds right?