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>make easier logical sense in day-to-day life The fact that the metric system is decimal and all conversions essentially consist of moving a point around are m
by Barrin92 3y ago
>make easier logical sense in day-to-day life
The fact that the metric system is decimal and all conversions essentially consist of moving a point around are much more trivial. 1000 millimeters is a meter. 100 centimeters is a meter. 10 millimeters is a centimeters. it's in the name. Same for liters, same for kilogram. You don't need to do math, you just move a separator. It's not arbitrary, that's the big advantage.
Especially when you jump several magnitudes. 3.5 liters is 3500 milliliters. What's 3.5 gallons in ounces?
eight ounces are one cup, two cups are a pint and two pint are a quart IIRC but then four quarts are a gallon? And there's more units. I always forget them and I actually tried to learn them.
- chungy 3y ago> What's 3.5 gallons in ounces? 448. That's not even hard. There's 128 fluid ounces per gallon. 3×128=384, add 64 to that for 448. You could work through that from the smaller units if you didn't know off hand. Still, it's pretty unusual to want fluid ounces at that scale. Keep it at 3.5 gallons.
- yongjik 3y ago> > What's 3.5 gallons in ounces? > 448. That's not even hard. There's 128 fluid ounces per gallon. 3×128=384, add 64 to that for 448. I think you just unironically showed why SI is the superior system.
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- maxerickson 3y ago"Quick Jimmy, how many 5 ounce containers can we fill if we have 102 gallons of syrup. No using a reference Jimmy, and you gotta do it quick in your head, these are new 5 ounce containers that we have never filled before and we can't put too many in the machine."
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