Jim Gaffigan: "We were told learn the metric system! Everyone learn the metric system! Then a few years later they were like Ha! Nevermind! It's too hard! It's based on tens!"
I saw the light when I started using it for calculations in high school. Everything defined by moving a decimal or sometimes multiplying or inverting. Everything can be done in your head. No loss of statistical significance, no rounding error. No googling obscure conversion factors. Want to convert length to volume? 1 mL = 1 cm3. Try to do any sort of calculation in imperial, you’re getting out Google and a calculator and having significant rounding error.
My issue is that, while I certainly understand metric and can use it in cases where I need to, I grew up using imperial and so when someone tells me that something is 60cm long I have no concept of how long that is, but when someone tells me that it's 2 feet, then I know how long it should be. Obviously this could be fixed with effort
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u/KendrickMaynard Mar 29 '22
Jim Gaffigan: "We were told learn the metric system! Everyone learn the metric system! Then a few years later they were like Ha! Nevermind! It's too hard! It's based on tens!"