there is no such thing as better. they are just 2 different systems. i use meters because thats just what we use. the system they use in america confuses me.
there is no such thing as better. they are just 2 different systems. i use meters because thats just what we use. the system they use in america confuses me.
You're joking right? The metric system is in base 10. That already is a huge advantage. The English system is a bunch of things in between different unites, typically, 2, 3, 5, or any multiple of those.
You're joking right? The metric system is in base 10. That already is a huge advantage. The English system is a bunch of things in between different unites, typically, 2, 3, 5, or any multiple of those.
To each his own! If I'm used to the metric system I won't want to switch to the other and vice versa....
I will only cite on reason, metric is always divisible by 10.
Another reason is that you don't have to learn the names of a crapload of units within the system itself (inches, feet, yards, etc. (hard, I know!)) because you pretty much just use the one unit and add a prefix, which is the same no matter what you're measuring.
This is a bit like the discussion on temperatures. Different people use different units, and if you have to strike conversation with an American, you need to learn what they mean, or at least find some sort of "scale to scale" converter for easy - translating.
The metric system is however what I have been raised with, since we discarded the inches, feet and yards a long while back like the rest of the world.
You're joking right? The metric system is in base 10. That already is a huge advantage. The English system is a bunch of things in between different unites, typically, 2, 3, 5, or any multiple of those.
But yet Americans use Fahrenheit, and the British uses Celsius. :l
why don't you use kelvin it's based on the coldest temprature that's posible.
Because 99.999999% of the time we'll never be reaching that temperature. It's rather confusing to convert from Kelvin to Celsius and Fahrenheit for most.
I would actually prefer to see America switch to the metric system is it's a more widely used system globally. (The U.S. being the only industrialized nation to not use the metric system as a standard.) I think it's pretty functional with it being set up as a base ten system.
[quote]why don't you use kelvin it's based on the coldest temprature that's posible.
Because 99.999999% of the time we'll never be reaching that temperature. It's rather confusing to convert from Kelvin to Celsius and Fahrenheit for most.[/quote]
Actually, there's a scientific law that says nothing can reach absolute zero. However, it is possible to get very close to absolute zero.
I would actually prefer to see America switch to the metric system is it's a more widely used system globally. (The U.S. being the only industrialized nation to not use the metric system as a standard.) I think it's pretty functional with it being set up as a base ten system.
I wouldn't mind a switch either since the metric system is easy to understand. In fact, some of the metric prefixes apply to bytes in computers.
