You're not wrong. From a US citizen who is tired of the old ways that don't work anymore
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The funny part is that US customary units are defined from SI units.
You use US customary, though, not Imperial.
I was in Canada and ordered a 20oz beer. The waitress said "ok the pint" and I said "uhh...the 20 oz one" and she said "yeah...ok."
Didn't realize that we had smaller pints (16 oz) than they do everywhere else.
The issue with the imperial unities is that every single place has their own derivation of them. You are lucky if they are consistent within an entire city.
The US had a lot of trouble getting them consistent through the entire country. Most of the world stopped using them instead.
Kg
k is kilo, K is Kelvin.
~~While that’s true, it’s an inconsistency. All other prefixes for factors greater than 1 are capitalized, while lowercase prefixes are for factors less than 1.~~
Wrong. See https://sh.itjust.works/comment/21212444
No, hecto and deca are also not capitalized. The rule should be, uppercase if more than 10^3. Or simply the change between upper and lowercase is between 10^3 and 10^6, not at 1.
It grinds my gears much more, that all the letters are latin, except μ.
Yeah, Latin prefixes should have Greek letters, and Greek prefixes should have Latin letters.
Or, maybe we change µ.
Personally, both are fine to me. But the first one would also solve the similarity between m and M, and also y and Y.
Now hear me out: Kelvingrams. If you can have an absolute coldest, maybe an absolute heaviest!
I don't think this is how physics works but it sounded fun...
I studied engineering in college (in the US) and on exams they'd throw a mix of imperial and metric problems at us.
Any time it was imperial, a lot of us would convert everything to metric, solve the problem, then convert the answer back to imperial
Moreover, 1m³=1000 litres, 1litre=1kg (of water)
You wanna know what is ridiculous, calling european paper sizes "metric".
I’m not sure if I ever heard that one, but that’s indeed nonsensical. ISO 216 is a very nice system, though, and used in most of the world, not just Europe.
I am not arguing it isn't nice, just that labeling it metric is a misnomer. The 1:√2 ratio doesn't have any inherent connection to the metric system.
There's a connection, but after that it's base 1/2 instead of base 10 (or 1/10). So A4 is ~1/16 m^2
So does trying to convince the U.S. to switch.
Imperialism does waste a ton of time!
Knowing the empire, its probably designed to be confusing so that you dont learn things
When I was a child in the 70s, metric was hyped everywhere from my science classroom to PBS. Then Reagan let an advisor talk him into torpedoing the official change. Can't say when, but over time I woke to the fact the change would never happen.
I hate measuring stuff in fractions. Trying to replace a part, reading my calipers, "Is that... uh, 7'16"? Fuck it. It's 11mm, I'll convert it."
I do like F for temperature as it applies to human comfort. No it's not logical, but 0F is cold as hell, 100F is hot as hell. Plus, there's more "resolution". Go up 1C and that's roughly 2F. I often change the thermostat up and down by 1F. 1C would sometimes be too big a change. C for all science use cases, of course.
Every time I see Shrek now, I shriek to think about how they're going to F up the new movie.