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One of the biggest arguments for metric (other than the rest of the world uses it) has been that it is easy to convert from liters to kilometers. In your day to
by chrismcb 12y ago
One of the biggest arguments for metric (other than the rest of the world uses it) has been that it is easy to convert from liters to kilometers. In your day to day life, how often do you need to convert from one thing to another? For most people, the answer is they don't. Occasionally in cooking you need to convert, other than that you rarely need to convert. So don't go and switch the system just because something people rarely do is easier.
And yes there are lots of jobs that require doing conversions. Many of those jobs already use metric.
- MisterBastahrd 12y agoConverting liters to kilometers? I need to know how to do this! How many beers is a kilometer? Gonna get my jog on.
- alayne 12y agoA liter of water weighs a kilogram and is 1000 cm^3 (.001 m^3). These units are easily related. That's what GP is referring to.
- fennecfoxen 12y agoAssuming a 500ml beer... (500ml / 1 km) = 0.5 square millimeters. For interpretation advice, see also: xkcd. https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
- T-hawk 12y agoThis actually has the same physical interpretation, right? If you took 500ml volume of beer and stretched it out to 1 km long, the stretched form would be 0.5 mm^2 in cross-section.
- anotherevan 12y agoAnother advantage is that a metre is a metre everywhere, and a litre is a litre everywhere (spelling notwithstanding.) A lot of the imperial units are regional. A tablespoon may be either three or four teaspoons. Who knows how much a fluid ounce is. One very real PITA is reading cooking recipes and having to do some deduction to figure out how much the units actually are.