Inch vs metric

[Tom_H]

I support metric, but I can't support those two. We started out with the sundial and mimicked that with the analog clock face which still roughly reflects the position of the sun's shadow on the sundial. We just let it go around a second time during the dark. Most of us don't get very mixed up between a.m. and p.m., but soldiers needing to synchronize an attack couldn't risk that possibility, so the military came up with its "Twenty-four hundred Hours" day. Thing is, we have to deal with Daylight Saving Time, Leap Years; we even added a leap second between the end of 2005 and 2006. Then there is the problem of relativity. Spend 6 months on the space station and when you return you'll be nearly a minute younger than you would have been had you stayed on Earth.

People who need to do calculus do use radians, rather than degrees, as needed. For most people though, radians are more difficult to use because it takes slightly more than 6 radians to go around a circle. You don't divide one circle into a whole number of equal parts. Training our posterity in metric would make their lives easier. Forcing people to use radians rather than degrees is pointless. Most people, especially children, would be unnecessarily frustrated by the complexity. Those who need it do learn it and use it. For most simple calculations, however, degrees is simpler and works just fine. Just because it's esoteric doesn't make it better.

 

[slowzuki]

I've grown up in Canada using metric, NOT SI. SI is reserved for science in schools.

Here everything is metric except:
Our height
Our weight
Building Materials (for residential use)
Measurements of stuff shorter than a kilometer.

 

[Steve_Miller]

Ken,
How long does it take for you fathom 9.5Kkm/l to miles per gallon when doing gas mileage? This rating doesn't sink in for me and they've been rating this way for umpteen years now. It's not bad enough to go to convert liters to gallons, but then if converting the other way it's gallons to liters. First you have to determine whether it's U.S. gallons(3.78L) or imperial gallons(4.54L). If it was made in Canada it should be 4.54L, the U.S. it's 3.78L. I still can't mentally picture a metric measurement in my head without roughly comparing it to a imperial measurement. etc.

100KPH - 62MPH
1Meter - 39"
10cm - 4"

I still have a very hard time for air pressure if I stop at a garage to put some air in a tire. I have to use my own gauge (which I carry in the glove box) which reads in psi. kilo-what? Metric is so much simpler if I would have grown up 20 years later and was taught it in school. You say something in imperial to your kids and they look at you as if to say what the h#%@ are you talking about.

Steve

 

[1948berg]

Gas milage is measured the opposite way, litres pr metric mile, (10km). Takes some some to get used to. When I hear miles to the gallon it tells me nothing.
A normal size car uses 1 litre pr mile (metric), a big v8 2,5 litre pr mile, a new small diesel 0,5 litre pr mile (metric).
Someone suggested that they could wait with the change to metric untill all old people had died!

 

[Bird]

Steve, I'm a computer dummy, but I do keep a spreadsheet on each of my vehicles to keep track of mileage, cost per mile to operated, etc. It's been 15 years since my last trip to Alaska, but when I made those trips, I set up a spreadsheet to convert the liters to gallons, and to convert the currency exchange rate at that time, so I knew what I was paying for gas and what mileage I was getting in numbers I was accustomed to. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Tom_H]

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Here everything is metric except:
Our height
Our weight
Building Materials (for residential use)
Measurements of stuff shorter than a kilometer. )</font>

You wrote this as a reply to my last post. I do not see what point you are trying to make in your post that relates to my post.

 

[rox]

Sory for the delay in my reponse we have been really busy with farm work and I have not been keeping up with my favorite website /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I didn't realize it until Turnkey wrote but yeah it seems like there are fewer wrenchs in the metric system. + they are all single numbers and easy to remember. Like if you worked on something before you remember you used a #8 wrench. It is jsut so much easier to figure out smallest to largest having to look at whole numbers rather than fractions. I hate doig math in my head, I'm actually not that good at it. Metric is easy a #4 a #5 wrench etc. It is just easier. I am also starting to get used to grams. Deli meats are usually 250 grams for a small package and 500 grams for a bigger package. It is easier than ounces and pounds, everything here on the metric system is all in 100's and 50's much easier to do the math in your head at the grocery store trying to figure out if you should buy the big package figuring out the price per gram.
I have only been here 2 years and I am getting pretty comfortable with the metric system. I have nothing negative to say about it. What sense is there in 16 ounces to a pound anyway? 16 is not an easy number. 5's and 10's are much easier to work with.

Yeah it was ahrd at first but really after only 2 years it is not that bad making the change over. The only thing I ahve not gotten sued to is measuring the temperature with a thermometer. I still like to see 78 degrees. I can't get used to celcius for the temperature.