Comment by anthk
3 years ago
Metric is easier. How does the humanity count? By using powers of 10. The usability it's right there. Just keep adding zeros.
3 years ago
Metric is easier. How does the humanity count? By using powers of 10. The usability it's right there. Just keep adding zeros.
But you've just stated that metric is easier mathematically. And I agree with you 100%, for that use case.
But C/F makes absolutely no difference in understanding the weather. Or cooking temperatures. Apart from measuring body temperature and possibly controlled lab environments, there is no situation in life where you need to break temperatures into 1/10 units or benchmark the weather on the boiling/freezing temperatures of water at sea level (I'm talking about the population at large, not meteorologists).
Miles/KM make absolutely no difference in understanding the distance you need to drive somewhere. The fact that a KM is 1000m does nothing to help you understand that the neighboring city is 40 miles (or 64km, or 64,000m) away.
Inches/MM make no difference when I'm doing woodworking. Although, again, no doubt doing the math is easier in mm than adding/removing fractions for inches.
My point is that, one can agree with the simplicity and standardization of the metric system (and I love its consistency) and also argue that it makes no difference in daily life.