/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12565224
This is why America is the greatest nation on earth. We have a simple reply to answers and can pretty much force other countrys to deal with it.

>>12565236
Anyone going to give me shit?

other than to crush the rebellion and to subjugate the galaxy, no, not many

>>12565224
Metric
>easy to memorize by rote
>average people can sound like they understand it, but are just regurgitating trivia facts
>end up with knowledgable idiots in STEM fields

Imperial
>arcane, confusing, and counter-intuitive
>plebs are filtered by basic conversions
>keeps scientists and engineers sharp by offering frequent mental math requirements

Inches is a more practical unit than centimeters for things like carpentry and construction because it is divisible by more whole numbers, which is something you don't realize till you use it irl. You can divide twelve into thirds and quarters (along with half for both), much more convenient than trying to measure out and cut 3.33 cm repeatedly

length measurements with binary fractions instead of decimals is pretty comfy. so is temperature in multiples of 25.

doing theory with imperial is a little less nice.

>>12565243
Nope. Sometimes the best shit to give is from
yourself.

>>12565273
You and your silly little arguments, over in the glorious united kingdom we use both. Sometimes I will even measure the dimensions of a single object with a mix of both.

>>12565273
How is 1 divisible by more numbers than 1?
A centimetre can be divided into thirds just as easily as an inch can.

>>12566094

Moderator here:

You are too stupid to comment on this board.
You may remain and observe, but do not post.

>>12566111
checked and keked

>>12566094
ok, then show how many centimeters you have when it's divided into a third. Do it in base 10 to the last decimal place.

I'll do that in base 12 here: 0.4

>>12566194
what's a third of an inch then? I'm confused

t. differentfag

>>12566228
you're intentionally missing the point. The english system groups things using numbers that have multiple divisors. you can divide 1 foot into halves, fourths, thirds, and sixths. With the meter you can only divide into 2 5 10 etc, and it's obsolete since nobody does this math on their fingers and toes anymore.

the meter itself is a known erroneous calculation based on earth measurements, and they knew it at the time they published it.

The inch is just as scientific as the meter is, since the inch can be defined as 500 millionth of the diameter of the earth - with the same error rate as used to calculate the meter

>>12566253
nvm didn't realize you were baiting

>>12566259
> i can't refute so i'll just claim the other guy is baiting

>>12566253
>>12566194
Name one situation where 'third of a foot' is more practical than 33cm or 333mm (third of a metre).

>>12565254
Nothing is true, everything is bait.jpg

>>12566347
Cutting a board that is a foot long into thirds is much easier than doing the same to a board that is one meter. As you get longer the divisors increase even more- it is much easier to work with 6 feet as 72" and cut it to various lengths than to divide 1.8 meters

>>12565224
1 teaspoon: literally 1 tea spoon
1 tablespoon: literally 1 table spoon
1 cup: literally 1 cup

What the fuck is a milliliter?

>>12566383
>A foot
Whose foot?

>>12566367
>Cutting a board that is a foot long into thirds is much easier than doing the same to a board that is one meter

There is no scenario in which someone (or any manual, scientific measure, whatever) would use third of a foot instead of the sane version of that in centimetres or millimetres.

You say it's easier to work with 72 inches (completely arbitrary number) than with 72 cm (also completely arbitrary)? Sure 72 inches is exactly 6 feet but 72 cm is exactly 0,72 metres.

>>12566367
>>12566253
I'll never get the true intent behind those messages because of Poe's law

>>12566383
I have different sized cups. Now what, faggot?

>>12566383
>What the fuck is a milliliter?
one thousandth of a bucket of water from the seine river in paris

>>12565273
>much more convenient than trying to measure out and cut 3.33 cm repeatedly
how do you end up having to measure 3.33... cm? somebody is obsessive-compulsive and forces you to use integer multiples of 10 cm?

>>12566385
A king apparently

>>12565254
>>12565273
>>12566194
>>12566253
Based base 12 user. Babylonians used it as well I think

>>12565224
1cal to heat 1mL of water is the only argument for Celcius I can think of.
Everything else -
>irrelevant temperature scale
>wtf is a liter?
>wtf is a meter?
>anything base 10, "hurr durr I count fengerz"
>grams are not a measure of weight
and so on is just pointless.
Reddit-tier wankery

>>12567644
Base 60 not base 12.
Base 60 is the truth and the most intuitive way of thinking.
Base 12 and base 10 are mockeries from feebleminded arrogant fools who refused to learn the wisdom of the ancients.

>>12567660
A liter is 1000 cubic centimeters
A meter is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 seconds
The Celsius scale is directly related to the Kelvin scale where 0K is -273.15 C exactly

>>12567660
Oh and a gram is 1/1000 of a kilogram
A kilogram is defined by taking the Planck constant [math]\hbar[/math] ([math]6.62607015×10^{−34}[/math] [math]kg⋅m^{2}⋅s^{−1}[/math]), with the meter and the second defined in terms of c and [math]Δν_{Cs}[/math]

>>12565224
no, they're retarded and outdated

>>12566111
reported for impersonating 4chan staff

>>12565273
>Inches is a more practical unit than centimeters for things like carpentry and construction because it is divisible by more whole numbers, which is something you don't realize till you use it irl. You can divide twelve into thirds and quarters (along with half for both), much more convenient than trying to measure out and cut 3.33 cm repeatedly

Inches and feet are good, fractions with changing denominators is TRASH

I've always advocated for decimal inches. Not the retarded engineer's measure where they divide 1 foot into 10 inches, that's not compatible with standard imperial. Just put fractions of an inch in decimal for the love of fuck. It's super intuitive and easy to do math with. Just with increments of .05, you get 20 units of precison instead of 16. Don't need that much prevision? Use increments of .1, or .25 . I can figure something as barely longer or shorter by just adding or subtracting .05 with no reducing of fractions required for formality. It's easier to write on paper and uses less vertical space. Fucking kills me when something is supposed to be nominal inches but I have to write 15/16 or 1/16 on it because people were fucking retards.

I actually own such a stanley measuring tape, but it's only decimal on one side and no one makes it as a full size tape.

>>12566016
>over in the glorious united kingdom we use both
we do this in canada.
measure with a mix of inches and cm, speed using km, weight in pounds

>>12565224
how much does a gallon weigh?

>>12565224
is this from a series of unfortunate events?
I do not recall most of those books, just that it was quite unrealistic at times and that it jerked itself off a lot

metric is godtier though

>>12566383
Why is it called a cup when all my cups are more than a cup