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US Customary Units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units) is not the same as
by Aloha 4y ago
US Customary Units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units) is not the same as Imperial (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units)
For what its worth, our system was standardized in 1832, and has been bound to SI equivalents since 1895.
For a broader comparison of the differences - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and...
- usrbinbash 4y ago> and has been bound to SI equivalents since 1895. But then why not just switch to using them directly? Having arbitrary units of measurement, and then going on to define them in SI units anway, is like dividing the day into 17.5 "Foobars", each of which consists of 4200 "Baz", and then defining that 1 Baz == 1.1755102040816328 seconds. If there was some tangible advantage to doing that, I wouldn't say anything, but there isn't. Sure, 1 inch is roughly something-with-thumb-idk, only it isn't really, because everyone has different fingers, feet, arms, etc., so the entire "advantage" of having a real world comparison is out the window anyway.
- mulmen 4y ago> But then why not just switch to using them directly? Where it matters we already did. There's really nothing to see here.