When measuring a room feet just seems an easier unit to eyeball. I could eyeball meters but not as exactly as with feet. The keyword here is eyeballing. Anything that can be eyeballed more or less might be easier to use with imperial units. Cups and pounds relate much better to real portion sizes in a traditional home kitchen. The same with cups of liquid.
That is the beauty of the imperial system is that because they were evolved and not specified they are naturally easier for us to relate to.
In other words for the uses they were originally designed they are more usable. However the needs of engineers, scientists and 7th grade maths students are very different. It is obviously a lot easier when you are trying to understand or change the world to have a common frame of reference and easy conversions. For them the metric system is great.
Everyone says the US is not metric. This is all it means. For all intents and purposes the Americans who need to be metric are metric. Scientist, engineers, big business and designers already metric. Because it makes sense for them in their trades.
Why do ordinary people have to be forced into using metrics in their kitchen or measuring their living room prior to going to Ikea?
The metrification map I linked to above shows pretty much a metric world. England is listed as being metric.
That is a joke. Everyone in England thinks in pounds, stones yes stones , miles and feet. Panama is listed as being metric since the 20s. They use pounds, inches etc just like the US. Obviously there are lots of countries that are metric, such as Denmark, Germany and Franche.
What about web developers. By their very nature I am also guessing that evolved units such as feet and cups grew as people grew and became healthier over the centuries.
And why not? As appetites grew the cup size grew, but the recipes stayed the same. It makes a lot of sense to measure your living space based on your actual foot size than some standardized version of a foot, as you are the one who is going to be living there.
Both are good for their particular purposes. I can relate to it better. Will Kamishlian August 28th, Wow, cool blog entry. I was just splaining this to a friend the other day. Units of measure are always arbitrary to some degree. Note that metric units seem to have Imperial counterparts. Kilograms are close enough to pounds to be usable as the same type of measure, especially when you consider that it would have been just as scientific to measure a kilogram as the weight of a cubic meter of water.
Napoleon could have just as easily divided a yard into 1, units. That would not have eliminated metric to Imperial conversion; however, it would have made it more convenient.
The same is true for quarts, kilograms, etc. When someone casts aspersion on the Imperial system, we might ask why he or she does not recognize the decimal calendar system. Pelle August 28th, Andrew Vit August 28th, Celsius makes more sense than Fahrenheit except for setting the oven , but feet and inches make more sense for construction. One usability point that the imperial system wins over metric is the divisibility of its units. Being twelve inches, a foot can be evenly divided by 2, 3, 4, or 6.
Well depends on the cup I use today. Everything around me is designed, build and made with the metric system in mind. I have alot of reference around me in my daily life. I have a better feeling for 38cm.
If you tell me the person is cm or 1. My country made the transition to the metric system, and it took a while to get used to it for all the people. Lau September 5th, I think you should use a unit that is appropriate for the situation. A table spoon or tea spoon is appropriate for cooking. Nautical miles are appropriate for sailing. Yards are appropriate for American football. The Imperial system is generally not decimal:.
These bizarre conversion factors and cross-continental differences and are a bad blow for Imperial, whereas the metric system of prefixes deals effortlessly with the miniscule and enormous quantities of modern living — like microns or megabytes. But the real clincher for metric is how beautifully it has been designed: one cm 3 is exactly equal to one ml millilitre , and a litre of water weighs precisely one kilogram. The inch and foot are just the right size for these measurements!
So although ingredients such as flour, sugar and butter are now sold by the kilo, many of us still use ounces to weigh them. When weighing ourselves, compare these three equal values: lbs, 11 and a bit stone, or 72kg. For me, the kilos are easily the most intuitive unit — this time the stones are too crude a unit and the pound a little too accurate. Why is it better to use the metric system, rather than the English system, in scientific measurement? The English system uses one unit for each category of measurement.
The metric system uses one unit for each category of measurement. The English system uses consistent fractions that are multiples of Because the metric system is a decimal system of weights and measures it is easy to convert between units e.
The biggest reasons the U. When the Industrial Revolution began in the country, expensive manufacturing plants became a main source of American jobs and consumer products. The expense of the U. The change would also impact housing and lot sizes, the measurement of temperatures with the new use of Celsius, and the change of mileage and speed signs. Metric is simply a better system of units than imperial The metric system is a consistent and coherent system of units.
In other words, it fits together very well and calculations are easy because it is decimal. This is a big advantage for use in the home, education, industry and science. Metric was first expounded by its creator in
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