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I agree. I’m from Europe and being trimmed to metric through and through. My main issue with the us or imperial units is not so much the conversion factors and
by larusso 3y ago
I agree. I’m from Europe and being trimmed to metric through and through. My main issue with the us or imperial units is not so much the conversion factors and weird rules. It’s the simple fact that I have no feeling how hot or cold a given temperature is, how long or short a given measurement etc. Just being exposed to the system and trying to live with it helps. Sure one still converts all the time mainly to get a familiar value to compare too. But after a while that doesn’t really matter. In the end it’s mostly important if for example is 80F a warm day or not? Is 1,5miles a long walk? Etc.
Sure adding ease of use when calculating with units is a different thing. But I understood that woodworkers etc like to measure in 8th/1000th of an inch. Something I would need to be exposed for years to be able to do.
- ghaff 3y agoIn the US I have the same issue with Celsius (plus the degrees are bigger). But I assume I could fairly easily spend some time to mentally align the scales and develop the intuition from there if I spent any time using Celsius day to day.