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Where does the ‘humanist’ bit end? Should we go back to fathoms, furlongs, chains, drams and bushels? This was settled a long time ago for the vast majority o
by lostlogin 1y ago
Where does the ‘humanist’ bit end?
Should we go back to fathoms, furlongs, chains, drams and bushels?
This was settled a long time ago for the vast majority of the word.
- throwanem 1y agoIf we should find they serve us better, why not?
- nancyminusone 1y ago>bushels Someone hasn't been to an apple orchard recently.
- bregma 1y agoIt's far more impressive to express gravity in units of stone furlong per fortnight squared. It's 7.14 x 10^10. Makes gravity on Jupiter look puny.
- throwanem 1y agoIt's that plus or minus about three orders, sure.
- fuzztester 1y agoJust for fun, check the yojana and related Indian measures: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojana https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojana https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_measurement_systems_in_India https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_measurement_syste...
- throwanem 1y agoNow, ironically given I'm for all serious purposes an English monoglot, you're speaking my language. Give me lakh and crore! Give me weights and measures where I can feel the history. Just like my mad 5,280-foot (1,360-yard) mile, which I love. And give me also the precise rational tenths-and-tens units, too, of course, for when we need accuracy more than soul. I work in thou all the time! All I've really been saying is, there's a place in the world for both ways of doing things. Why's everyone else so hellbent on having exactly one or the other?