/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2906385]

>Criticize imperial system.
>Use just as fucked of a system for measuring time without saying anything about it.

[Anonymous No.2906388]

What? You don't use our 100 second minute, 100 minute hour, and 10 hour day? Backwards people you are.

[Anonymous No.2906394]

>>2906385
>>2906388

samefag.

also, let me know when you find a way to put 100 days in a year.

[Anonymous No.2906398]

>>2906388
>mfw it doesnt fucking matter what unit of measurement you use for anything as long as you're consistent.

everyone is stupid except for me.

[Anonymous No.2906401]

>>2906394
>>2906398
Trolled, no one uses metric time.

[Anonymous No.2906407]

>>2906394
>samefag.
Nope.

>also, let me know when you find a way to put 100 days in a year.
Days in a year is the only fixed quantity in our units of time measurement. That's no excuse for the bullshit that is months/weeks/hours/minutes/seconds.

[Anonymous No.2906408]

>>2906385

Clearly you have not taken any reasonable science classes and no one in their right mind works in the imperial system besides students in engineering classes and they hate it. Go back to /b/

[Anonymous No.2906425]

>>2906407

having 365.25 days in a year, how are you going to have a metric system for months and weeks?

also, bullshit on the samefag claim.

[Anonymous No.2906426]

>They use a base-ten number system

[Anonymous No.2906438]

In the Marcab Confederacy we use conventional time units of 2^80 * hbar/c^2/(proton mass). That way when we destroy a planet and move onto the next, we can keep our old schedules. We don't need to sleep at night anyway.

[Anonymous No.2906441]

>>2906408
>Point out how stupid and arbitrary people who wave their dicks about the metric system are.
>YOU CLEARLY DON'T UNDERSTAND SCIENCE.

[Hollow Waves !!Czae4KQs0ob No.2906447]

>He measures his units in base 10!

Fucking plebs.

[Anonymous No.2906453]

>>2906425
Why do you need "months" and "weeks"?

[Anonymous No.2906456]

>mfw the rest of the world believes USA uses only imperial system for measurements

[Anonymous No.2906468]

>>2906408

[Anonymous No.2906483]

>He only uses real numbers!

Complex master race here. Square rooting everything like a boss.

[Anonymous No.2906492]

>>2906453

why do you need "days", "minutes", "hours", or "seconds"?

[Anonymous No.2906514]

>>2906398

i like you

[Anonymous No.2906518]

>>2906492
Why not fix a unit so retarded that it varies between being defined as worth 28, 29, 30, or 31 days?

[resident /sci/ economist !!0CqB7P/574e No.2906533]

A day needs to be divided into something divisible by 4. Originally sun rise was hour 0, and sun set was hour 12. noon was hour 6, and the times between noon and sun rise and sun set were 3 and 9. It because 24 hours because people started applying the 12 hour system to night too.

Change the system to a 10 hour day is fine. But it would represent a change in human beings. Back in the day the sun's position was the only time telling device that existed, and much of our life revolved around it. Changing the system to something out of tune with the sun, like a metric time system, would be weird if you think about it like I am.

[Anonymous No.2906542]

>>2906385
nope
welcome to the meter: it measures time, too

[Anonymous No.2906560]

>>2906518

it is a convenient unit of measurement when describing things that last longer than a day but shorter than a year.

as for the varying lengths, 365.25 is not easily divisible by any number, so rather than splitting days down the middle, we put up with the varying lengths because nobody thinks the changing lengths are a big enough hassle to warrant using weeks instead.

either way, the metric "solution" is just to eliminate useful (if imperfect) units like weeks and months because they don't fit the base 10 system. Have fun saying your wife is 193 days pregnant.

[Anonymous No.2906567]

Exactly. The French Revolution can only go so far.

Decimal time, as well as other forms of 10 base units are counter intuitive.

12 base units are the way to go. Highly composite numbers ftw

[Anonymous No.2906591]

>>2906560
>it is a convenient unit of measurement when describing things that last longer than a day but shorter than a year.
Yeah, and? That's no excuse for it not even having a fixed value.

[Anonymous No.2906631]

>>2906591

read the second sentence then

[Anonymous No.2908378]

>they don't use base 2

[Anonymous No.2908382]

>>2908378

>they bump 9-hour dead threads

[Anonymous No.2908391]

They make me use the metric system in lab and stuff, but I still don't understand it in relative terms. I have no clue how tall I am in meters or what the temperature is in celsius right now. When it comes to weight measurements I'm even more lost. I can't even make a decent guess as to how much a kilogram is. Measurement systems are like languages, if you don't teach people them from a young age they will never be completely comfortable using them. I frequently will use google to quickly convert metric measurements to imperial ones so I can have some relative understanding of what i'm doing.

[Anonymous No.2908396]

Imperial system is a mess. Each unit has its own tiny reasons to exist, it's ridiculous. At least time is consistent. 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours, very easy to do math with those numbers.

[Anonymous No.2908407]

I don't think America will ever make a real every day use transition to the metric system. As long as America remains a super power the rest of the world will still have to accommodate in some situations.

[Josef !!nUf2NflSAyw No.2908411]

There's no reason for changing the day to have <span class="math">10^n[/spoiler] seconds or whatever. In science, you use things like "<span class="math">10^5~s[/spoiler] anyway, and in everyday life the concept of time is so well-suited to our biological rhythm that there are no real alternatives (besides introducing unnatural things like megaseconds for 1.65 weeks). And no, it wouldn't be better to have hectoseconds or crap like that to compensate for the hugeness of megaseconds.