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One could easily spend more time trying to measure 1.905 cm vs very quickly dividing 1 into 3/4".

If the standard is written in Metric, the factory that makes the parts uses metric, and the place where the parts are used uses metric, why don’t they just use 2cm screws instead?

Your argument for the convenience of imperial is that the standard uses imperial. No shit. It would be just as hard to cut something to 0.787" inches if the standard were in metric.

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jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That was also part of my point. I am tired of people trying to impose one unit or series of units being superior when they are all just made up.

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- SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The reason metric makes sense is because its standard, and 90% of the world uses it. Being the odd one out just causes problems in the long term, especially as we move towards a more globalized world.
  
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  - Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    More then 90%, there are only 3 countries who don’t.
    
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ssj2marx@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

convert inches to miles

When will you ever convert inches to miles? One of these is for measuring things that you can pick up with one hand, the other is for measuring traveling distances.

The useful thing about standard measurements is that base-12 is much more useful in daily life than base-10, which is only easier to work with on paper. Make a footlong object and you can very easily make 1/2 1/3 1/4 1/6 and 1/12 versions of it, make a decimeter long object and you can only easily do 1/2 1/5 and 1/10.

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- MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes, obviously dozenal metric is better than decimal metric, but decimal metric is better than imperial.
  
  Where Metric really shines is conversion between unlike units. In Metric, the equation for voltage is V=IR, and it’s so convenient Imperial didn’t bother to make their own version of it, so americans use metric for electricity. I can use kilograms and meters to calculate force, while you silly americans have to convert inches and pounds into different pounds using a conversion factor. Then I can use meters again to get pascals, or I can use meters differently to get joules. You’re stuck using a conversion factor to get calories. Then I can use seconds to get watts, and we’re back in electricity territory where you fools have to convert over to our measurements to keep up. Metric is awesome!
  
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