Except that’s not what “using metric” means
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Zwiebel@feddit.org 22 hours agoWell the US units are defined by their metric conversion these days, so technically they are just metric with some weird factor slapped on
platypode@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
A meter is defined as 1/299,792,458 the distance light travels in one second, so everybody is using weird factors.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 7 hours ago
It used to be 1/40,000,000 of earths circumference
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Factors of 10 are overrated. Mebibtyes are objectively a better measure than megabytes.
owsei@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Yes, because you are sticking with the base that matters for the value. Stuff on computer is binary, so base 2, so factors of 2. Other stuff we use the most common base, 10.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Only for data and that’s a quirk of organising binary data in bytes. Factors of whatever your base is are better. Don’t think we’re going to be moving away from base 10 for volume or distance or power.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I dunno, a half cup is 8 tablespoons, quarter cup is 4 tablespoons, an eighth cup is 2 tablespoons. A half liter is 5 deciliters, a quarter liter is 2.5 deciliters, an eighth liter is 1.25 deciliters. In cooking I’m much more likely to use binary arrangements than decimal, and the fact that metric users would use milliliters instead of deciliters makes me think that ten isn’t really the magic number it’s cracked up to be.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
If you’re used to cups and teaspoons of course you’re more likely to use binary divisions. I’m more likely to use steps of 20% for that purpose. And if you want to actually tailor your proportions to match the one egg or whatever the indivisible object in your recipe is, then you end up with 241 mL or 13.57 Tbsp anyways. Anyway, ten isn’t the magic number, it’s just the one we use for almost everything, and already did when we had imperial measurements.