Imperial or Metric?

[Duke Malcolm]

Which do the people of the Org prefer?

Imperial :

16 ounces to a pound, 14 pounds to a stone
12 inches to a foot, three feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile.
pints (that's all I know for fluids -- and need to know)

Advantages : Good for the brain, requires mental thought to add things up, makes people better at maths

Metric :
1000 grams to a kilogram
1000 millilitres to a litre
1000 millimetres to a metre, 1000 metres to a kilometre.

Advantages : Easy to use

In USA, they use good ol' Imperial units.

Here in the UK, we use an odd mix of both. Shopkeepers are forced by law to sell products in Metric, but many display both Imperial and Metric units (except on pre-packed thingies). Distances are measured in miles on roads, but OS and road maps are in kilometres. Schools teach Metric, but some pupils know Imperial, and I have made an effort to learn it, sort of. The Metricisaction process began in 1971 with the introduction of the decimal currency...

In Europe, they use Metric.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Viva l'Mile!

[Gawain of Orkeny]

14 pounds to a stone

Wow I never knew that. Im gonna have to order a stone of weed then

I think metric would be easier if you were brought up on it and makes more sense but Imperial is pretty much stuck in my brain at ths point. I remeber going to Canada and getting gas and it was 75 cents a gallon and I was like whoa thats expensive. Then I reaslized it was an imperial gallon. I guess thats another matter though.

[GoreBag]

Wow I never knew that. Im gonna have to order a stone of weed then

I think metric would be easier if you were brought up on it and makes more sense but Imperial is pretty much stuck in my brain at ths point. I remeber going to Canada and getting gas and it was 75 cents a gallon and I was like whoa thats expensive. Then I reaslized it was an imperial gallon. I guess thats another matter though.

Where was that? Everything's Centigrade in Canada.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Metric all the way. Much more precise, easier to use, let's you focus on keeping track of more important/advanced things and gets rid of crazy fraction measurements.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

For people who count in base 10, metric is the only sensible way to measure things. Imperial is extremely inconsistent and unwieldy to use. I mean, 8/16s of an inch? Come on!

[Goofball]

Wow I never knew that. Im gonna have to order a stone of weed then

Holy smokes!

That'll cost you a few Euros...

[Oaty]

Imperial measuremeant originated from a foot being as long as a kings foot, so who the hell was the king that had a 12 inch foot. I have a 9 inch foot and am 6 feet tall.

Maybe that king had an irregular foot you know maybe under the same catgory as the 6 toe vice or odd number of toes

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

It's not the Imperial system it't the American system!

And for those who say Imp- er, American is "unnatural," remember the backroom rule of thumb:

Originally posted by Everybody
Computers aren't natural...

Note: that's used to justify anything considered unnatural...

[Muska Burnt]

impeial since im used to it and what 14 pounds to a stone?

[The_Doctor]

Imperial sucks. It is mad.

1760 yards for a mile, how the hell did they get number?

[The_Doctor]

Another thing, why is it so political?

[el_slapper]

Another thing, why is it so political?

Because it is a reference.

References are highly important in the collective unconscious. That's what makes peoples different. That kind of thing is part of a people's identity. You cannot deal with such things simply with reason - as it does'nt shake one's brain. It does shake one's unconscious.

Many are bathed soooooo deep in the imperial system that it simply went a part of them. I'm a metric boy, but god knows that if I was imperial, I wouldn't want to give up a part of myself.

[Dutch_guy]

metric system,

does the imp. system really make people smarter , or is just said by english people to promote their system ? just like us high schoolers like to say that chewing gum makes you think better.

In short is that proven ?

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Sorry but I just never understood metric. I mean, is a kilomete less then a mile, as I always thought it was, or is it more than one, like my teachers say it is? Why does it go to centimeter to meter? I hate decimals!

[The_Doctor]

I mean, is a kilomete less then a mile

Yes.

Why does it go to centimeter to meter

A centimeter is 100th of a meter.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Yes.



A centimeter is 100th of a meter.

yeah but a centemeter is like the equivilant measure of an inch (not size wize but useage wise) and a meter a yard, what bout somthing thats in between?

[Ronin]

Sorry but I just never understood metric. I mean, is a kilomete less then a mile, as I always thought it was, or is it more than one, like my teachers say it is? Why does it go to centimeter to meter? I hate decimals!

a kilometer is 1000 meters.....

a mile is more....1600 meters i believe......

[Ronin]

i think metric makes much more sense because all the measures and sub-measures are multiples of one another in a regular sense...

like....1 kilogram is 1000 grams....and 1000 kilograms is 1 ton...

on the other hand in imperial you get:
"12 inches to a foot, three feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile."

how does this make sense?....why is the foot 12 inches but then there are only 3 feet in a yard????

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

metric system,

does the imp. system really make people smarter , or is just said by english people to promote their system ? just like us high schoolers like to say that chewing gum makes you think better.

In short is that proven ?

Chewing gum DOES make you think better. It was proven in a study by Cambridge University.

[ShadesWolf]

Imperial
every time

[Papewaio]

Which do the people of the Org prefer?

Metric :
1000 grams to a kilogram
1000 millilitres to a litre
1000 millimetres to a metre, 1000 metres to a kilometre.

The US lost a quarter of a billion dollars from a poor imperial to metric conversion.

Metric
Grams for mass
Litres for volume
Metres for length.

milli = 1/1000th of the base unit, so 1 millimetre (1mm) = 1/1000th of a metre.
kilo = 1000 times the base unit (1x10^3), so 1 kilometre (1km) = 1000 metres.
or 1000 grams = 1 kg.

1 litre = 1000 cubic centimetres (1000cc) or 1 decimetre cubed (1/10 of a metre cubed), so there are 1000 litres or 1 kilolitre to a cubic metre.

micro = 1/1,000,000th of the base unit. (1x10^-6)
mega = 1,000,000 times the base unit (1x10^6) prefix M

[Procrustes]

After I replied to this thread I started thinking about all the conversion formulas I have to carry in my head. (I live in the US.) So....

Farenheit = 1.8*Celcius + 32
1 gallon = 3.8 liters
1 kilometer = 0.6 miles
1 cm = 0.4 inches
1 meter = 39 inches
1 foot = 30 cm
1 ounce = 28 grams
1 kilo = 2.2 pounds

And those are just the ones I have used enough to memorize. I'd be very happy if we ever convert - it will make life simpler.