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What does the economy have to do with units of measurement? Not to mention that all of the scientific and engineering world (yes, even in the US) uses metric. I
by cyphar 8y ago
What does the economy have to do with units of measurement? Not to mention that all of the scientific and engineering world (yes, even in the US) uses metric. If you were to do a headcount, the US is very strongly in the minority on this one. Not even the UK uses imperial outside of the historical usage of miles.
Most anti-metric folks I've spoken to don't like metric because an inch is an ugly amount of centimetres (or similar arguments). But by the same token, a centimetre is an ugly amount of inches...
(Also, most imperial units are now defined in terms of SI units.)
- Koshkin 8y ago"Centimeter" is an long and ugly made-up word; not to say anything about all these "tera" and "nano" (not sure what the Greeks think about them). The main point is that with the advent of automatic computers the original reason for "metrification" is no longer valid.
- cyphar 8y agoI'm confused, isn't "inch" also a made up word? Aren't all words made up? > the original reason for "metrification" is no longer valid. This seems like a silly argument given that humans still have to write these systems, and all of the engineering and physics papers use metric. So any system interacting with anything physical (which is all the systems that would care about the use of metric/imperial units) would be more easily written using metric units. Not to mention that humans still do many tasks that computers don't, and in those cases metric still has the same upsides it has always had.