Metric System
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I took a physics course in College. The teacher would always ask us if we wanted the problem in English or metric units. The first month people always begged for English units but as the semester wore on, students began to beg for Metric units!
It really is a much easier system to teach and use---but they both work fine for the average citizen.
It really is a much easier system to teach and use---but they both work fine for the average citizen.
K
Because the French people got more aggressive about democracy than we were. In order to keep feet and inches, you had to use the king's foot as the standard for how long a foot was. If kings are not allowed, neither is the foot. The nonsense was finally stopped when they tried to put 10 days in a week, and that contradicted genesis.
I don't have time right now, maybe later I'll post why the Metric system is a horror, roughly analogous to legalism in Christianity.
It's nothing new. The Egyptians had two systems just like ours back in 1700BC.
I don't have time right now, maybe later I'll post why the Metric system is a horror, roughly analogous to legalism in Christianity.
It's nothing new. The Egyptians had two systems just like ours back in 1700BC.
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The metric system is a simple logical system of measurements that is used throughout most of the world. That ensures that systems of weights and measures are correct where ever you go, unlike the imperial system which differs in the countries using it - us gallon vs british gallon etc. The multiple of units is logical and it lends itself to engineering and science much better than the old imperial system, though it is getting more complicated by the American standard of now combining the metric and imperial systems, ie milli inch, kilo yard etc
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Really? First, the Imperial gallon is 4 imperial quarts which is 4 liters. The only reason America is different, is because when the British government (we were colonies back then) sent us the sample to set our measurments by, the bottle was not sealed properly, and some evaporated, and we did not know it for many years.
Let's talk logic: You carry a yard with you (it's a pace), and a half yard (elbow to biggest extended finger), a quarter yard (open your fingers all the way, it's a span). You carry a mile (it's 1/4 or 1/3 of an hour walking, almost exactly). you carry a cup (just cup your hands). You even carry 10 degrees of arc (it's 5 fingers wide when your arm is extended in front of your eyes). 2 lb. of meat or grain is exactly one day's calorie needs. 1 acre feeds 2 people, and is 70 paces square. 1lb. of meat=8 lb. of fruit=16 lb. of vegetables in calories. You eat 1/4 of 10 lb. of food at a meal. Everything is in 2's and 3's, you can do the arithmetic in your head. Try matching one thing, ANY one thing to your body in Metric. And what's the advantage of being able to calculate in 10's if you can't visualize 10 things accurately without counting them? And try reaching for that calculator, or paper and pencil to move the decimal point, to figure 1/3 of the recipe demanding 225g of molasses when your hands are full of batter.
What's the logic of metric? You try measuring 1/10,000 of the earth's quarter circumference through the Metric committee's home office in Paris to figure out how long a meter is. Then try weighing 1cc of water to get an accurate gram. Remember it must be at sea level (which is changing as the icebergs melt) and standard temperature and pressure.
Oh, that's right, the names are all the same, because they are based on the universal languages of Greek and Latin. Greek and LAtin might be universal in europe, but try telling that to African tribesmen, Moslems, Chinese or Pacific Islanders. If your language lacks an r or an l, how do even say meter or liter? Do you know Greek does not have a letter for h? You can write hecto with a reversed apostrophe, but you have to learn the Latin alphabet if you are Greek and want to abbreviate hecto- anything or talk about land in hectares. And milli- and meter are both m. So what do we do with micro-? You try to find the Greek letter mu on your English keyboard.
America was Metric before the UK, by the way. We had 10mills=1 cent, 10 cents=1 dime, 10 dimes=1 dollar, 10 dollars=1 eagle, 10 eagles= 1 century while you folks were messing with farthings, pence, shillings, pounds, and crowns. But a 10 penny was still worth one quarter, and a "hay-penny" one American cent.
I never heard anyone say milli-inch or kiloyard until your post. Are you sure we are doing that?
Let's talk logic: You carry a yard with you (it's a pace), and a half yard (elbow to biggest extended finger), a quarter yard (open your fingers all the way, it's a span). You carry a mile (it's 1/4 or 1/3 of an hour walking, almost exactly). you carry a cup (just cup your hands). You even carry 10 degrees of arc (it's 5 fingers wide when your arm is extended in front of your eyes). 2 lb. of meat or grain is exactly one day's calorie needs. 1 acre feeds 2 people, and is 70 paces square. 1lb. of meat=8 lb. of fruit=16 lb. of vegetables in calories. You eat 1/4 of 10 lb. of food at a meal. Everything is in 2's and 3's, you can do the arithmetic in your head. Try matching one thing, ANY one thing to your body in Metric. And what's the advantage of being able to calculate in 10's if you can't visualize 10 things accurately without counting them? And try reaching for that calculator, or paper and pencil to move the decimal point, to figure 1/3 of the recipe demanding 225g of molasses when your hands are full of batter.
What's the logic of metric? You try measuring 1/10,000 of the earth's quarter circumference through the Metric committee's home office in Paris to figure out how long a meter is. Then try weighing 1cc of water to get an accurate gram. Remember it must be at sea level (which is changing as the icebergs melt) and standard temperature and pressure.
Oh, that's right, the names are all the same, because they are based on the universal languages of Greek and Latin. Greek and LAtin might be universal in europe, but try telling that to African tribesmen, Moslems, Chinese or Pacific Islanders. If your language lacks an r or an l, how do even say meter or liter? Do you know Greek does not have a letter for h? You can write hecto with a reversed apostrophe, but you have to learn the Latin alphabet if you are Greek and want to abbreviate hecto- anything or talk about land in hectares. And milli- and meter are both m. So what do we do with micro-? You try to find the Greek letter mu on your English keyboard.
America was Metric before the UK, by the way. We had 10mills=1 cent, 10 cents=1 dime, 10 dimes=1 dollar, 10 dollars=1 eagle, 10 eagles= 1 century while you folks were messing with farthings, pence, shillings, pounds, and crowns. But a 10 penny was still worth one quarter, and a "hay-penny" one American cent.
I never heard anyone say milli-inch or kiloyard until your post. Are you sure we are doing that?
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I agree 100%: Mil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia read halfway down the page.