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Oct 9, 2015
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PolarisPrime
That's a valid reason.
but if you were an EE you would use metric.
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Merica.
flavordave
10/9/15 5:13pm
I think what this boils down to is
Yoshinobu
10/9/15 5:16pm
100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit
AndyDwyer
10/9/15 5:18pm
Also true. I just thought this was an interesting article because I'd never
flavordave
10/9/15 5:34pm
There was a lot of language in the math description that I did not understand.
CDV
10/9/15 5:18pm
As someone who's slightly mathematically OCD about repeating fractions,I concede
LeftOfNormal
10/9/15 5:25pm
Ha. Interesting thought.
flavordave
10/9/15 5:32pm
I have an uncle that would argue that we should all switch to a base 12 system
KingDave
10/9/15 5:44pm
I don't think it would really matter for computers.
Squeegee
10/9/15 9:44pm
Until you got to one seventh. Amiright?
NanoFab Coug
10/9/15 5:52pm
Twelve fingers => base-12 system?
ThetaSigma
10/9/15 6:05pm
You mean 2/5ths as easy as metric fractions.
PolarisPrime
10/9/15 6:09pm
As an engineer I use inch units because
StrongBad
10/9/15 5:42pm
That's a valid reason.
PolarisPrime
10/9/15 6:07pm
The English system is much more intuitive.
Freddie Cougar
10/9/15 5:45pm
Especially with weights
Busiturtle
10/9/15 6:03pm
A centigram burger.
PolarisPrime
10/9/15 6:11pm
For some things - but not for others.
PolarisPrime
10/9/15 6:18pm
Sure, real world constants that are anything but intuitive
Freddie Cougar
10/9/15 7:57pm
I would say freezing and boiling are far mor intuitive
PolarisPrime
10/9/15 9:22pm
I'm talking about weights and measures. Temperature is not the measure of a
Freddie Cougar
10/9/15 10:56pm
Between the two of them, the US and UK basically took the world from
hansel
10/9/15 6:37pm
So why does a list of the top 100 universities in the world
PolarisPrime
10/9/15 7:00pm
So you convert from one to the other
Busiturtle
10/9/15 9:12pm
It's not really that hard
PolarisPrime
10/9/15 9:21pm
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