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Aside from some internet memery, no one cares too much if you use metric or imperial, but mixing the two is a special kind of accursed. Metric is more clean. E
by jorvi 3y ago
Aside from some internet memery, no one cares too much if you use metric or imperial, but mixing the two is a special kind of accursed.
Metric is more clean. Example: you have a cube of 1 meter, filled halfway with water. You can calculate the volume of water as being 1 * 1 * 0.5 cubic meter. 1 cubic meter is 1000 liter (ho ho, the magic already manifests), so 0.5 cubic meter is 500 liter. I even know the approximate weight is 500kg, as 1 liter of water ≈ 1 kilo.
Doing this in cubic yards/feet + fluidic ounce + pounds is not even in the same universe in terms of elegance or ease-of-use. Swapping the fluidic ounce to liter does not solve that and probably introduces whackier ratios.
That does not mean you are a bad person for using imperial, but stating that "its easy to convert" isn't wholly fair either.