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I'm not saying the metric system was harder. I'm just saying I remember when they started to teach us and then bailed on it. Easy to look back and say "They really should have stuck with it" but that doesn't change the fact that this Country is now in a state where the financial impact of changing it is apparently too great to overcome. Or we're just that dang stubborn, either way. :roflmao:
 
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TerribleTim68 said:
I remember when they tried to teach us that in grade school. "We're all switching to this...." Lasted like half a school year and they gave up on it. :roflmao: :laugh: :roflmao:
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The USA has converted several times.
I grew up on the old methods. Being a multi-interest geek (with special interest in radio, electronics, and audio), I learned metric as well. The best part (ha ha) is owning two sets of tools- one SAE & etc., and one metric.
 
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TerribleTim68 said:
I'm not saying the metric system was harder. I'm just saying I remember when they started to teach us and then bailed on it. Easy to look back and say "They really should have stuck with it" but that doesn't change the fact that this Country is now in a state where the financial impact of changing it is apparently too great to overcome. Or we're just that dang stubborn, either way. :roflmao:
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Yeah, this thing measures out at 50 1/2 "- just my 2 cent(imeters) worth.;)
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Miles_ONeal said:
The USA has converted several times.
I grew up on the old methods. Being a multi-interest geek (with special interest in radio, electronics, and audio), I learned metric as well. The best part (ha ha) is owning two sets of tools- one SAE & etc., and one metric.
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Do you have a metric crescent wrench and flatblade screwdriver set?
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
The USA has converted several times.
I grew up on the old methods. Being a multi-interest geek (with special interest in radio, electronics, and audio), I learned metric as well. The best part (ha ha) is owning two sets of tools- one SAE & etc., and one metric.
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yeah, same here. as a formally trained radio (RF) engineer, most propagation related work is easiest dealt with in metric, hence proficient in both..
 
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GonePlaid said:
A-Southern version. B-Yeah, I prefer pi. Or is it cayk?
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Pi has also gone metric. 3.14159... is way too much for metrisexuals[pi] to remember, so under the Billyboingers numeric system, pi became 1. Unfortunately, that caused problems up and down the number line, so the Billyboingers method was immediately replaced with the Jadedstrumpet method where e was 1, which came with its own issues. Thus a many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal[1] series of numbering methods was born.

Meanwhile, us "flatliners" (as the metrisexuals like to call us) are stuck here in the stone ages with e and pi and such full of (among other things) irrational numbers, happily counting away without having to name a new system before we've even figured out what the old one was based on.

Bonus question: Provide the equation describing a THUNDERBIRD.

[1] Not unlike the Dark Arts.[2]
[2] As related by Professor Severus Snape
[3.14] Those who find the metric system too sexy for its body[e]
[e] Not to be confused with metrosexuals
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
yeah, same here. as a formally trained radio (RF) engineer, most propagation related work is easiest dealt with in metric, hence proficient in both..
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Yes! Calculations related to speed of light (such frequency/wavelength calculations) are what first sucked me down the metric rabbit hole.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
Pi has also gone metric. 3.14159... is way too much for metrisexuals[pi] to remember, so under the Billyboingers numeric system, pi became 1. Unfortunately, that caused problems up and down the number line, so the Billyboingers method was immediately replaced with the Jadedstrumpet method where e was 1, which came with its own issues. Thus a many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal[1] series of numbering methods was born.

Meanwhile, us "flatliners" (as the metrisexuals like to call us) are stuck here in the stone ages with e and pi and such full of (among other things) irrational numbers, happily counting away without having to name a new system before we've even figured out what the old one was based on.

Bonus question: Provide the equation describing a THUNDERBIRD.

[1] Not unlike the Dark Arts.[2]
[2] As related by Professor Severus Snape
[3.14] Those who find the metric system too sexy for its body[e]
[e] Not to be confused with metrosexuals
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Pi stinks, but I love it.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
Yes! Calculations related to speed of light (such frequency/wavelength calculations) are what first sucked me down the metric rabbit hole.
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gotta keep in mind the meter is based on a real quantity where the foot is not..that said, my father’s generation of engineers dealt with wavelength in imperial units...pretty crazy..
 
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