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>Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States.

>> No.1037491

Africa, southern asia, and the USA.

Not suprised

>> No.1037510

The UK still uses non IS units a lot, too. Although they offically adopted it, true.

>> No.1037549

God damnit I hate my country

>> No.1037568

>>1037549
Burma?

>> No.1037580

ITT: Everyone else does it one way so clearly it is better.

Applied to...
>Majority of people in the US are christian so it is better.

>> No.1037599

>>1037580
7/10

>> No.1037615

>>1037580
bro...this logic is usually something i can agree on, but metric or IS or whatever they call it these days is SO much fucking easier than the imperial system.

>> No.1037622

>>1037580
5/10

>> No.1037633
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1037633

>Pick the odd one out.

>> No.1037636

>>1037580
100000 milimeters 10000 centimeters 1000 meter 1 kilometer
63360 inches 5280 foot 1 mile

Foot based on actual king's foot in middle ages

Meter based on the constant c

tell me which is better?

>> No.1037637

>As their primary or sole system of measurement:

Do any of these use both ISU and a native system outside of specific, scientific contexts?

>> No.1037638

nobody in the US actually thinks imperial is better, we just use it because its what we are used to and have other shit to worry about rather than changing our units. also we use both systems, and also we only use metric in science. get over it, rest of the world

>> No.1037641

I grew up using Imperial. I use that for everyday things (I'm 5 foot 9 inches tall, etc etc).

For SCIENCE I use Metric just like everyone else.

Why is this such a big deal to everyone?

>> No.1037660

>>1037638
Hey, this is the Mars Lander, just letting you know I'm 6 765 feet above the surface of Mars as planne- *static*

>> No.1037661

why would I want to use French units?

>> No.1037667

We should make a volume system based off the crown of the King of England.

>> No.1037669

>>1037641
eurofags have major penis envy for murka and look for reasons to put it down to feel better

>> No.1037679

>>1037636
>tell me which is better?
Tell me which one isn't arbitrary.

>> No.1037684

>>1037679
Metric is better.
They are both arbitrary.

>> No.1037704

ITT:

HURR YOU SPEAK ENGLISH INSTEAD OF X WHY YOU DO THAT?!?

>> No.1037706

>>1037660

Jealous his country hasnt put two landers on the moon

>> No.1037707

>>1037684
It's only better because you are too stupid to memorise and do simple arithmetic in your head.

>> No.1037736

>>1037679
Okay, listen here. We're not rating the worth of systems of measurement on feelgood huggy-dovey does-it-work-for-you grounds. We're measuring it on the level of consistency and ease of calculations between its units.

I could make a system where one Quaggle is the length of my large toe's toenail, one Quiggle is 173 Quaggles, one Jiggawigga is 6,219 Quiggles, and the base unit for volume was the blood in a church mouse, but it would be a very impractical system to use. I would hate to use it myself.

>> No.1037744
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>>1037706
>Putting a lander on Mars!

>> No.1037746

>>1037707
I don't think you understand the concept of "better"

>> No.1037759

>>1037736
>Doesn't understand all measurement systems are arbitrary.

>> No.1037788

>>1037759
>hasn't heard of natural units

>thinks an arbitrary assumption on the base unit then arbitrary assumptions about which multiples to use is just as arbitrary as deciding on the first unit and then using powers of 10 to define the rest.

>> No.1037794

>>1037759
>implying base 10 is not the most logical thing to do

>> No.1037803

>>1037636
the american units for length have been tied directly to the metric system fro decades. One inch is, by definition, exactly 2.54 cm.

>> No.1037812

>>1037788
>Doesn't understand he just proved my point.

>> No.1037817

>>1037794
>implying base-10 is the most logical 100% of the time.

>> No.1037824

>>1037794
>implying it is

base 16 is the most logical

inb4 all bases are base 10

>> No.1037835

>>1037759
(except a system utilising multiples of the planck length, with c used to convert it to time.)

>> No.1037844

>>1037835
That would still be an arbitrarily defined system.

>> No.1037838

>>1037824
>implying base 2 isn't the best choice, which is why computers use it.

>> No.1037839

>>1037824
no, i use base 10

i thought you guys used base A

>> No.1037850

>>1037824
Best bases, in order
god tier: base 30 (halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, tenths)
ok tier: base 12 (halves, thirds, fourths)
shit tier: everything else

>> No.1037853

>>1037794
base ten would be EXTREMELY illogical if not for scientific notation. It makes for unnatural counting as it is factored 2 and 5, whereas imperial conversions have 2 and 3 which is much simpler.

>> No.1037863

>>1037474

why should we follow anything the british do? those idiots think that grams is a measurement of weight

>> No.1037868
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1037868

fucking relevant picture is fucking relevant

>> No.1037874

>>1037863
>those idiots think that grams is a measurement of weight.
>grams --- weight
... what? Mass you mean?

>> No.1037881
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>> No.1037894

>>1037874

look...over your head.....its the point!

>> No.1037899

>>1037894

sorry, you won't get that one either...

>look...over your head...its a bird, no its a plane....no its just the point

fix'd

>> No.1037904 [DELETED] 

>>1037868
>>1037881
One side has six units. The other side has three units.

>> No.1037910

Anyone who said base16 really needs to stop smoking so much weed.

>> No.1037915
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>>1037868
Fine, I propose this new system. Base 10 and solves all issues as per your requirement.

>> No.1037924

>>1037894
>>1037899
I can't see a point, it only exists in one dimension.

You don't make any sense.

>> No.1037917

>>1037868
>>1037881
One side has six units. The other side has three units.

>> No.1037922

>>1037850

12 is the most stupid base I've ever seen.

>> No.1037938

>>1037924

>facepalm.jpg

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>>1037938
>myface.jpg

>> No.1037963

>implying I don't know both units therefore being superior to everyone

>> No.1037970

UK fucktards don't use them either.

>> No.1037979

>>1037922
you can count 12 object than you can 10.

Also, take this example of utility, suppose you have two sticks, one a yard and the other one meter, and you want to mark them in inches and centimeters. Making bisections is trivial with a compass and a straight edge, dividing into 3 is also possible. But for the meter stick, you'll eventually have to divide something into one fifths which can't be constructed quickly nor estimated accurately by eye.

>> No.1037984

implying knowing shit counts as knowing something

>> No.1037989

>>1037979
>you can count 12 object than you can 10.
Was that even English?

>> No.1038012

>>1037989
forgot the word "faster"

my mistake.

>> No.1038026

>>1037979

So you have to choose base 6 or 30.

>> No.1038035

>>1038012

>implying the lack of the word "faster" was the error

>> No.1038041

>>1038012

> Implying it make sens with it

>> No.1038054

>>1037636
The one based in something physical that I can measure for myself.

>> No.1038061

>>1038041
>sens

>> No.1038065

>>1038041
>>1038035
please suppress your pedantic dispositions for a moment and acknowledge my statement has only one meaning.

>> No.1038114

>>1037636
meter was a tenth or hundreth of a degree at the equator

inch is now defined exactly in cm (I believe it's 2.54 cm)

both are equally inferior to using natural units in base 16