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I bought a mechanical engineering book, and I found the rent seeking quite clever: the international version(this one was targeted for the Indian market) did no
by nraynaud 7y ago
I bought a mechanical engineering book, and I found the rent seeking quite clever: the international version(this one was targeted for the Indian market) did not have American units, only SI.
- sjf 7y agoThe rest of the world uses SI units, why would you expect anything else in the international edition?
- hueving 7y agoBecause any competent engineer should be able to work with both interchangeably.
- dannyw 7y agoIf you ask any competent engineer in Australia to work with imperial units, they will go whaaat.
- jhoh 7y agoIf you ask any competent engineer outside the US to work with imperial units, they will go whaaat.
- lugg 7y agoAnd almost all of the world uses SI units, so why would you expect anything else in the international edition? I.e, all you've given us is a reason to only ever use SI. Which isn't really what your intention was, was it? (I'm aware non SI is useful in some contexts.)
- BrandoElFollito 7y agoWhich contexts? I used to be a physicist so voodoo around constants so that we end up mass having energy units was common but I cannot think off my head of problems better where imperial units are easier. There are certainly, I am genuinely curious which.
- e12e 7y agoWell, it's easy to remember that the speed of light is roughly 1.8 terafurlongs per fortnight...
- BrandoElFollito 7y agoI thought it was a joke but it is not. And "roughly" here is actually "very close to". Now I know what imperial units are useful for, thanks.
- nraynaud 7y agoit's the link with money that I found interesting, $100 for the american units (I mean American book have problems in both system of units, aerospace, military and engineering for science tend to work in metric) and $30 for the SI unit only.