• glitchdx@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    If you want to convert between imperial units, going straight from feet to miles is impractical. You’d be better off knowing the chart of survey units, and they’re all small numbers so they’re easy to remember.

    12 inches in a foot

    3 feet in a yard

    22 yards in a chain

    10 chains in a furlong

    8 furlongs in a mile

    Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.

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        13 hours ago

        Than remembering 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10; because metric has more measurements most people don’t use as well!

        • 10 millimetres to a centimetre
        • 10 centimetres to a decimetre
        • 10 decimetres to a metre
        • 10 metres to a decametre
        • 10 decametres to a hectometre
        • 10 hectometres to a kilometre
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        9 days ago

        I know right? it’s such an intuitive system with a convenient unit for every scale you might want to work with.

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          8 days ago

          I genuinely can‘t tell if you are being serious. Could you tell me at face value, I just want to know.

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            8 days ago

            I don’t know glitchdx from Adam, but I say with confidence that they were being sarcastic, and laying it on pretty thick.

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            8 days ago

            yeah, it sucks. There’s no actual case for imperial over metric. it’s just what I’ve spent years getting used to and I’m not changing now.

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              8 days ago

              The imperial units were created for practical every-day measuring, so if you know how to apply them, they still hold up to the task. Just more difficult to use for large data sets like architectural models etc.

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      8 days ago

      Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.

      Did the metric system kill your family or something?

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        16 hours ago

        Nutrition is in grams on purpose to be confusing to a population corpos knew weren’t really raised with it. By 9th grade all Americans have studied the metric system for science class, but it never really becomes intuitive for most people whereas we can hear “a cup of sugar, oh wow that’s a LOT of sugar for just one pitcher of liquid” without doing any in-head conversions

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        8 days ago

        We use both. Body weight is in pounds, but nutrition is in grams.

        In general we use metric more for smaller, more precise weights and imperial for everything else. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone measure anything except cocaine in kilograms.

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        7 days ago

        Weight is in pounds. Only pounds. don’t ask me how much a gram or a ton is.

        Volume, though, I still remember “Gallon Man” from 1st grade.

        2 cups in a pint

        2 pints in a quart

        4 quarts in a gallon

        What’s after gallons? not a clue.