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I was with you until you said imperial is better than metric system. Why is that or what are you basing that on?
Imperial is better for real world applications because it's easier to estimate, metric is better for more precise measurements because it is easier to make smaller.
Take temperature, Fahrenheit is better for real life because you don't have to go into decimals to describe the weather outside while Celsius is better for lab work because it's easier to increase or decrease by a small amount.
...Fahrenheit is smaller than celcius.
It's just zeroed on super-saturated saltwater freezing and hundreded on the original thinker's temperature when he was outside a bit too long, instead of freshwater freezing and freshwater boiling.
But one degree F is almost exactly 5/9ths of one degree C. About half as much. So if you hate deci-mals for some traumatic backstory reason, you'd want to use F for your fine-tuning adjustments... And C for the outdoors, which doesn't usually require as much precision. The only issue with that idea is F is scaled on two very different things, which makes some calculations a chore since a surprising amount of our science is based off of water freezing and boiling.
The IDEAL temperature system in this hypothetical decimal-hater-but-science-lover's case would be Rankine, which is like Kelvin (absolute zero is a baseline), but in Fahrenheit units instead of celcius units in the steps.
That's not what I meant, but go off. Celsius is easier to use for lab work because all of the useful temperatures are multiples of 10, decimals are easy to do math with, and simpler to record. Having the baselines between freezing water and boiling water be 0 and 100 meant it was easier to do stepwise incremental heating back when you had to calibrate analog equipment in the days we were determining relative humidity by spinning these bad boys over our heads.
Metric is also better for lab work because it's easier to put onto the microscopic scale, all you have to do is keep dividing by multiples of 10 to millimeters, micrometer, nanometer, etc.
Kelvin and Rankine are only useful when doing theoretical science and some thermodynamic and quantum mechanic calculations. Also when you're doing quantum computing and attempting to approach absolute zero. Otherwise normal temperature values are too high to be useful.
Experience. Metric is garbage. Divisibility by 10 or SI prefixes are not used by most people. It pretends this is some superior benefit when it is not. It ignores completely how the majority of people use units.
People in Europe use km to describe big distances, m to describe medium ones, and mm to describe small ones. They don't know or care what a Gm is or why a um might be a better choice of unit for the scale of work being described. They don't really relate the two units together on any level either. "How many human bodies would you have to lay end to end to get from Edinburgh to Glasgow?" Who cares? So, fundamentally it's never actually used the way it was intended.
Outside of those contexts knowing how many feet are in a mile will occasionally be useful but never on an immediate basis. You're never going to need to stand in a field with nothing and work it all out in your head. So those complaints that there are 5280 ft (1760 yards really) in a mile are hard to remember are completely misplaced and never present themselves in actual work.
The fact that the imperial relation between feet and inches mean there's a factor of 3 between them. Dividing by 3 in metric is annoying as all fuck. And shows precisely why there's no metric time and we still use a base 60 system for time keeping... making every time related calculation in metric fucking retarded due to the lack of common factors.
All of this equally applies to the mass scale. I could go on but my dinner is here. You get the point I hope.
Metric is better for tool measurements. Hands down.
If the metric "9" socket is too big, what size do you grab next?
If the imperial "1/2" socket is too big, what size do you grab next? A 7/16? A 15/32? A 31/64? Who fucking knows, typically the answer is 'whatever is next to the open hole in my toolbox cutouts, assuming I have them'.
One is much easier to answer than the other, which requires nothing more than rote memorization of 'standard' fractional notation and mental division.
Metric becoming standard on vehicles came with an additional advantage, they basically decided to make the 10mm the socket that will work on 95% of the bolts in the entire car. Nice round number.
1/32 is more precise than 1mm. The fact that you even have 1/64ths. To do that in metric you'd have to have a "9.5mm". Oh fuck, looks like you already do, because of course you need that. We didn't start using 1/32" just to fuck with you. We needed the additional precision.
That's so low rent fuckwits in foreign factors can assemble them.
They could have all decided to use 3/8" heads and kept it imperial.
I assume you have a nice round head.
lmao shut the fuck up you hyper-contrarian fag. It's obvious you cooked up this explanation from absolutely nothing because it's so stupid. Inventing gay arguments because you're a fucking gay who is addicting to arguing.
Nobody ever built a fucking bolt with a 9/16ths head and said "oh no, this isn't PRECISE enough! Increase it to the 19/32nds! MUUUUH PRREECCISSSIOOONN!!!!"
Nobody did that because a 19/32nds socket doesn't fucking exist, because nobody needs it. Oops there goes 'muh precision'.
How many sockets come in a typical Imperial socket set up to 1"? 12? 13 maybe?
Wow, 'muh precision' only comes in 12 grades of precise. How fucking weird is that.
You're such a fucking fag. Delete your account.
My car was made in Tennessee by a Japanese corporation.
This corporation was practically single-handedly responsible for putting the stupid fags with their imperial system cars in Detroit out on the streets living under overpasses because literally everything they made was a creaky pile of poorly-made dogshit.