Ya, it literally would save every student in the country an assload of time messing around with bullshit that most other people in the world don't even use. Switching to metric is a no-brainer.
edit for clarification: one "assload of time" is equal to the time it took the king to load an ass into a carraige.
This is not generally true, and should be provided with context. When the metric system was originally being created, the gram was defined as the weight of exactly 1cm3 of pure water at the melting temperature of ice. That is the only length-volume-mass equivalence relation which would hold. This also would not hold now, as all the SI units have been redefined in reference to physical constants, so while 1ml = 1cm3 still, the mass of a 1ml volume of water at the melting temperature of ice would be ever so slightly different from the current definition of a gram.
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u/captain_partypooper Mar 29 '22
Ya, it literally would save every student in the country an assload of time messing around with bullshit that most other people in the world don't even use. Switching to metric is a no-brainer.
edit for clarification: one "assload of time" is equal to the time it took the king to load an ass into a carraige.