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Not answering the OP but instead sharing what I am having to do to accommodate others while learning a thing or two through that accommodation. Some here may re
by bokohut 4y ago
Not answering the OP but instead sharing what I am having to do to accommodate others while learning a thing or two through that accommodation. Some here may recall the significant NASA failure where imperial and metric were mixed leading to a costly outcome(1) and that is what I want to avoid. While I am not launching rockets I do require extremely accurate calculations for my objectives. As an American, born and raised, the U.S. way is baked into everything that I do; however now that I am engineering a global hardware based solution that sees neither race, nationality, or creed all my engineering calculations are presented in metric in the final “pitch”. As an American I have done all my "internal thinking" using what I know but to reach a broader market for my potential global audience my documentation carries the reader, should they be Imperial based, through the metric conversions for those with the mathematical interest. My past experiences have guided me to spend the time now for this activity as a function of explicit documentation presenting the engineering and this is time very well spent since explicit written calculations with variables and constants clearly labeled leave much 'less' room for error when assumptions are eliminated, regardless of your unit of weights and measure.
(1)https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17350-nasa-criticised-for-sticking-to-imperial-units https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17350-nasa-criticised...