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In the 60's we were supposed to go metric. It was highly unpopular. It went away since people simply didn't want to.
A lot of things are culturally set. If I want a YARD of material its because I know how far it will go. I don't want to have to use fractions to see if it will work. Think of all the recepies that use cups, tsp, TBSP, and so on. These are the things which make a difference in ordinary life, and things which people were not willing to have to use math to figure out if it was the right amount. If manufacturing or science want to be metric fine. Leave my gallon of milk alone.
And maybe for some converting using fractions is easy, but personally I hate them. For those of us who are not math people, leave us to our antequated measurments and have fun calculating.
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In the 60's we were supposed to go metric. It was highly unpopular. It went away since people simply didn't want to.
A lot of things are culturally set. If I want a YARD of material its because I know how far it will go. I don't want to have to use fractions to see if it will work. Think of all the recepies that use cups, tsp, TBSP, and so on. These are the things which make a difference in ordinary life, and things which people were not willing to have to use math to figure out if it was the right amount. If manufacturing or science want to be metric fine. Leave my gallon of milk alone.
And maybe for some converting using fractions is easy, but personally I hate them. For those of us who are not math people, leave us to our antequated measurments and have fun calculating.
Lol. My wife thinks her way is better. All of her cookbooks look like this one.
We'll go metric when we start measuring sports in the metric system. People will have something to related to then. Somehow I don't expect announcers to be sauing "First down and 9 meters to go" anytime soon.
How about metric time if the metric system is so good? 10 metric hours in a day, 10 metric days in a week, etc. If this system is adopted, I calim the right to name one of the new three days as it was my idea first. "Baconday" would be the new Friday.
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We'll go metric when we start measuring sports in the metric system. People will have something to related to then. Somehow I don't expect announcers to be sauing "First down and 9 meters to go" anytime soon.
How about metric time if the metric system is so good? 10 metric hours in a day, 10 metric days in a week, etc. If this system is adopted, I calim the right to name one of the new three days as it was my idea first. "Baconday" would be the new Friday.
Actually under the influence of the Food network, and previous experimentation, unless its baked (and that HAS to be be right as in chemistry) I do dashes and "a few" and by taste. Hard to write out my recipies anymore. Add "about" to all the measurments.
Love Eggplant and oriental spices so may experiment
The irony is that fractional measurements based on 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc., are an advantage in binary computer mathematics and control.
True, but fractional measurements don't apply specifically to any particular unit of measure. Fractions have the advantage over decimals in accuracy but 1/3 for example can be used equally to describe portions of meters or feet.
Neither fractional nor decimal expressions are exclusive to either imperial or metric units. 1/3 of any unit cannot be accurately expressed in decimals.
I personally couldn't care less which unit of measurement is "official" because I can easily wrap my head around either. I can't see the expense of switching when the imperial system of measure that we mostly use at present is just as accurate as metric. When someone figures out a way to make pi rational I'll be thoroughly impressed and will gladly adopt whatever unit of measure such a math-god would suggest.
I actually find American shoe and clothing sizes far more troubling. Anyone who has kids can relate. I wear a size 11 shoe while my son with much smaller feet wore size 13. Then a year later he wore a size 1. It's a mess. After ordering clothing on-line I learned to my horror that babies, toddlers, kids, youth, and adults are entirely different species.
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