Comment by Aloha
3 years ago
US Customary Units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units) is not the same as Imperial (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units)
For what its worth, our system was standardized in 1832, and has been bound to SI equivalents since 1895.
For a broader comparison of the differences - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and...
> and has been bound to SI equivalents since 1895.
But then why not just switch to using them directly? Having arbitrary units of measurement, and then going on to define them in SI units anway, is like dividing the day into 17.5 "Foobars", each of which consists of 4200 "Baz", and then defining that 1 Baz == 1.1755102040816328 seconds.
If there was some tangible advantage to doing that, I wouldn't say anything, but there isn't. Sure, 1 inch is roughly something-with-thumb-idk, only it isn't really, because everyone has different fingers, feet, arms, etc., so the entire "advantage" of having a real world comparison is out the window anyway.
> But then why not just switch to using them directly?
Where it matters we already did. There's really nothing to see here.