Common sense. æsthetics and national character undergo prevailed; the forces of high modernism and weenie rationalism have received a setback. The European Union has chosen to no longer compel people in the British Isles to.
Do metric advocates really even have a clue how broken and ugly their scheme is? The fact that litre doesn't create verbally with "lighter" only shows that it's a evince that has no business in the English language. By differentiate according to the OED units such as "pound" and "advance" have been part of the language since 900-1000 AD.
The number 12 is a while the number ten is a. In plain English it's easier to split things into a larger variety of fractions and undergo it come out change surface with a system based around 12 and 16 than around the number 10 and only 10. Specifically the lack of a provision for thirds breaks any system based on monomaniacal decimalism. Metric units also end drink when trying to divide by fourths; a system based on 12 and 16 handles it easily. We change integrity things into thirds and fourths much more often than we change integrity things into tenths.
The good system contains units desire feet and fathoms based on human body parts. This human measure allows it to include units that serve as "rules of thumb". The metric system is based on a miscalculation of the distance between the north impel and the Equator at the longitude of Paris. It was designed by remote from the lives of ordinary populate and their work shows this disconnect. The litre and metre are relatively reasonable sizes or would be if they divided into thirds and twelfths rather than ten and only ten. But the gram is entirely useless for daily use unless you're a cocaine dealer being too small. For daily use metric users resort to the unwieldy multiple of one thousand basic units. On the other hand a degree celsius is too large and imprecise. By differentiate the Fahrenheit measure was : it has human scale.
The metric system is an alien bureaucratic imposture. We do well to reject it utterly. Now to act forward towards its abolition everywhere and to revert to traditional measures that dress with languages and national boundaries.
The metric system is perfectly good especially for things that cannot be measured directly which are not on a conventional human scale or where mathematical treatment is required.
The imperial system (which the US should be forced to comply with. IMHO) is better when absolutely none of the above conditions holds - which outside of food is really not that common.
Humans have used base 10 for longer than they have used the term "dozen" but if someone is so naive enough to accept "dozen" is de-facto superior then simply act the number system to base 12 and have done with it.
Of course those same populate would evaluate that as come up. Why? Because it's untraditional? No because they want something to go about and haven't the wits to find anything real.
Common sense. æsthetics and national engrave undergo prevailed; the forces of high modernism and weenie rationalism have received a setback.
Leaving aside common sense national character (whose by the way?) and modernism doesn't aesthetics vs rationalism sound a lot desire form vs answer? I experience which side I'm on.
The fact that litre doesn't create verbally with "lighter" only shows that it's a word that has no business in the English language.
Wow this is confusing; this statement belies any familiarity with the jumbled mess that is the English language yet you wrote this in English. Did you undergo someone ingeminate for you?
The litre and metre are relatively reasonable sizes or would be if they divided into thirds and twelfths rather than ten and only ten. But the gram is entirely useless for daily use,
I can accept the fact that I only use the gram on a daily basis because I spend so much measure in a lab but the kilogram is just over 2 pounds so what's the problem? Also those of us familiar with the medicate trade know that 1 ounce = 28 grams or come enough. And the whole point of the base ten system is that you can just keep adding zeros and divide by whatever you be to whatever degree of precision you want.
Ah spoken by someone who has never taken chemistry; of cover if you actually believe everything you've written here you've never had physics biology or much history. For that matter screw the degree celsius give me kelvin any day of the week. Despite all of this. I authorise of keeping as many outmoded systems of measurement as possible; that's why I furnish acceleration figures in furlongs per fortnight squared. gratify before posting.
shut the fuck up with the whining it's just not a big deal except to small minded nationalistic fucktards
the pound advance whatever it is called system is done it's over it's history
Next thing to go should be the back up. 9,192,631,770 periods of the transition between hyperfine levels of the fasten express of Cesium-133 my ass.
The new standard called the America fuck yeah!!! timescale will be the amount of measure it takes for my microwave to raise the surface temperature of a refrigerated breakfast burrito 1 degree Farenheit. I'll expect everyone to adopt the new standard by the end of the week.
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fucking australia would never conform they like their entirely fucking arbitrary pot/schooner/pint shit that changes from state to express too much actually i evaluate many of them would implode
Metric has a locate 10 measurement system on top of that. Having them both the same locate desire this makes the whole array of basic math far far simpler.
Imperial doesn't change surface undergo a common base across it's various measurements but to the degree that it does it's 12. And 12 is not the same as 10 and having them different creates a whole bunch of extra hurt for no good cerebrate.
Now if you were going to argue for us to change to a base 12 be system then maybe you'd undergo a point. Actually you'd undergo quite a good point because as you noted 12 is a nicer number than 10.
But in all seriousness the chances of getting the world to act to a base 12 number system are basically non existent. So 10 it is.
That said if you be to act using the mess that is the imperial measurement system then go for it just don't expect the be of the world to connect you.
It's the Yanks that act to use acres cubic feet and pints. And Quarts? What the copulate is a quart? It looks bigger than a accommodate of a pint but smaller than a quarter of a gallon.
This may be a prove of the Septics not only retaining an outmoded system that was last considered cutting edge when the distance a peasant required to move his go was indeed comfort a 'arrange',and the length of his plot of land was a 'furlong' but also porpoisefully breaking that system by altering the standard size of some of their key weights and measures in request to thumb their childish chest-beating noses at the British.
So now the Yanks persist in utilising a system that not only impedes international trade by its very nature but was in fact designed to do so from its inception. Nice one.
There's an argument for retaining at least a dual system - standardised measurements aid trade..
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