NightlyPoe said:
kirby007 said:
are you ignoring Centi and Deciliters/meters on purpose?
edit: removed flame
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Do you regularly use decimeters or deciliters? That's why I skipped over them. A centimeter is useful enough for a small measurement and I would have said enough if I'd touched on them. A decimeter is more or less useless though, since it does not result in a big enough difference, which is why centimeters are generally used all the way up to meter.
Ka-pi96 said:
Seems like a joke post.
How exactly are feet are useful measurement? They're not. They're of no more use than metres. They're easily replaceable, as they have been in many countries already.
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A foot is a very useful measurement that has not been replaced at all. It just doesn't exist in the metric system. People use it in the United States all the time even though we also have the yard, which is generally equal to a meter. Which tells me that, if the metric system had a unit similar to a foot, it would probably be popular as well. Metric system is quite popular you know. If we take away the measurement of a foot, sure we could get by, but the reason why the foot was created and why it remains in use is completely because it's such a useful measurement of distance for when an inch is too small and a yard is too big. Which measurement of DISTANCE is to small to be measure in meters? I guess you wanted to say length or something else. The thing that you don't seem to understand is that the metric system units weren't created to be useful or by people looking to measure their world in a meaningful way. The metric system units were created by the happenstance of a fraction.
Metric system was created to be pratical, easy to convert and make maths instead of following whatever the ruler of the moment wanted to be the inch or foot measurement.
Do you even know how many feet are in a mile? I sure don't, and I even grew up in a country that used feet/miles. I do know how many metres are in a kilometre though, since you'd have to be pretty thick not to. |
Sure, 5,280 feet.
But you've reduced the question down to something that's largely irrelevant -> Conversion. For some reason metric supporters (popularized by untold numbers of elementary and middle school teachers) think this is the one and only consideration for adopting a measuring system. And while it can have its uses (mostly in the scientific areas where very big and very small units are required), generally it not really all that helpful.
A mile was created to measure fairly large distances. Does it really matter if you know how many feet that is? As long as you've got a good estimate in your head for what a mile means, who cares what number of feet it takes to get there? Conversion is a largely irrelevant consideration.
You made a lot of ruckus for defending the feet as being relevant, while ignoring that the measure in cm for it exist anyway (and tell me how many american have their feet matching the standard size?), it is quite easier to have a notion of what is 1km since we all know the 1m.
You aren't "stuck" between mililitres and litres. You can use centilitres too.
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Do you generally use centiliters? If not, obviously, your culture obviously finds it irrelevant. Which makes me curious what it would even be brought up. I mean, I wouldn't bring up a furlong for measuring distance. What would be the point? It's not used enough to be relevant to the conversation.
Why would ml even be a problem though? "you need 500 ml of water" You(apparently): "500? No! That's too much!!!!!". Regular person: "Ok". |
Me? I'm not the person who came up with the need for teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, quarts, and gallons. So some, presumably regular, persons must have have decided that measuring 100 teaspoons actually was too much and invented the pint to make life easier, or however the process must have gone.
Someone thought it was important enough to separate each of those units and and those units became and continue to be popular enough that they remain in common use even in the modern age. So, the question becomes, "Why?" And the answer is that is was useful. A single cup meant something, as did a pint and a gallon. And its use has continued consistently into the present, which means that those units of measurement remain useful.
Because of the rigidness of the metric system, none of the units between milliliter and liter fall into a category that people use. So you're stuck with only the two. Can you get along with only two? Sure.
Does qualifying as good enough make it superior or even equal? Heck no.
Do you have any difficult in using something if it is over 10 in count? Because you can easily measure from 1ml to 1000ml with easyness.
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