This thread makes the baby Isaac Newton cry....
Imperial Units...WTF?
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As an engineer, I use whatever units the job at hand requires.
31.9 mm is probably an internal diameter for a commonly available metal tubing size.
and headset cups are in mm's
Hedwig and the Angry Pair-and-a-Half of Centimeters doesn't have the same ring to it.
We're just cooler than the rest of the world. I blame it on porn. When porn stars start describing their units in centimeters, then maybe we might climb on board... 12cm sounds more impressive anyways. Will Subway start selling 30.5 longs...
distance measurements are straightforward no matter the system. 'Merican units get real ugly when power and energy get involved, especially with electro-mechanical systems. How many ounce force inches in a Calorie?
Careful, I'll exhume my HP28C...
628 joules, I think.
I find that I am mostly using metric on vehicles these days as most all cars/trucks have gone that way<yes even good Ole 'Merican>. Every once and awhile I get an older American made vehicle that is standard, and I still get alot of late 80 to late 90's that are a wild ass mix of both. Its best to know both but what people are saying about the machinery is true, specially for large parts. Small nutts and bolts no problem getting them in metric, but you want anything larger than a 14MM and it starts getting tough. To top it off try finding a good assortment of case hardended Metric fastners.... thats a toughie
Bacon is sold by the pound here, what are my choices?
25.400050800101600203200406400813 to be absolutly exact.
I just use my fingers.
My gym weights kg's and lbs. Good thing I have a metric converter.
ftfy.
I never did figure out pound mass and slugs.....
Can you tell me what that is in stones?
how many henways?
Where the metric system really wins is with cooking. How many teaspoons in a cup? Stupid.
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Considering the poster, I am guessing that is something about cubits in Sanscrit.
About 2,280 oz*in^2/s^2 if I didn't fvck it up.
I get around 592. Didn't calculate nothing, just looked it up.
Can you write Sanscrit in Comic Sans? MIND.....BLOWN.
I only work out in metric. I picked up a metric bowflex in Moldova, and my workout intensity went through the roof - once you go metric, you'll never go back.
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