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Greg2
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Jul 27, 2018
Growing Up in Canada I’m fluent in both and still use both in industry. The mixed metric system is the best. You call things by their imperial names but when you build or design anything you use pure metric. So you have a 2” pipe that you cut 3500mm long.
This works because imperial is a much more conversational system. 100F is hot outside 0F is cold. A foot is a good approximate distance for measuirng human sized thing and an inch is a good approximate distance for measuring hand sized things.
Metric is only better for calculation and since outside of stove efficiency all you are doing is summing weights in a spreadsheet conversational units are more important than calculated units.
A good example of this is liters vs cubic inches for backpacks. It’s much easier to under stand the difference between 20 and 40L than 1200 to 2400 cubic inches. The litres are the more human sized unit.
So for weight ounces makes sense as it’s the smallest unit that is meaningful. Shaving a gram is meaningless, most kitchen scales are only accurate to +/- 3g anyways.
In conclusion intermixing both systems of units to have the best conversational set units that are suited to the human scale makes the most sense.
liters, inches, feet, ounces, lbs, kilowatts,
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