Are you still imperial?

[KrisB]

adder70 once bubbled...
OK, if all of the SI measurements are so neat, how many liters in a cubic meter? The liter is a superfluous measurement devised only to make daily life easier. Since a cubic meter is fairly large, the term liter was devised for a common size of container.

Well, a litre = 1 dm3. 1m3 = 1000 dm3. 1m3 = 1000 litres.

The Fahrenheit/Celsius difference is because 0F is not 0C. 15C is 59F, or 27F above freezing (0C). 30C should be 54F which would be 86F. Now I get my trusty HP calculator back out and it says...86!!

The thing is, remembering some Celsius things are much easier. Like freezing is 0. Not 32. And pure water boiling at sea level is 100. Not 212.

 

[adder70]

KrisB once bubbled...


Well, a litre = 1 dm3. 1m3 = 1000 dm3. 1m3 = 1000 litres.

Tell me, what is the shorthand for dekameter, and how many people even know what a decimeter is, mcuh less how to tell dm from the shorthand for dekameter? What is 100m?

 

[KrisB]

adder70 once bubbled...


Tell me, what is the shorthand for dekameter, and how many people even know what a decimeter is, mcuh less how to tell dm from the shorthand for dekameter? What is 100m?

IIRC, decametre is Dm, decimetre is dm.

100m = 1000dm = 10 000cm.

 

[adder70]

KrisB once bubbled...


IIRC, decametre is Dm, decimetre is dm.

100m = 1000dm = 10 000cm.

Actually, I meant the prefix for 100, which, upon further research, I confirmed is Hecto- (100m = hectometer)

 

[dvleemin]

diverbrian once bubbled...
I know off hand that a kilometer is equal to .6 miles from my times driving in Canada.

Incorrect . . . 1 mile = 1.6 km and 1 km = .625 miles

Darryl

 

[dvleemin]

Eventually its going to happen to the US, its just a matter of time. Industry is already doing it, and lots of other things that aren't readily visible to the average American. The one big one, visibly at least, is the speed limit signs. But eventually they need to be replaced, and I could easily see their replacement showing both miles and KMs, and then eventually just KMs.

In any case, up here in Canada I use both.

Pints of beer
Litres of milk
Tire pressure in PSI
Drive in KM/H
Gas mileage in mpg
Gas in Litres
Dive in feet/psi
Temperature in Farenheit
Poeple's Height in Feet
People's Weight in Pounds
All other weight in KGs
Distance in Kms

Even in Canada, imperial is used all over the place.

You go to the grovery store and buy meat in both pound and kgs.
The trades all measure using feet and inches
When you fly, they tell you you're cruising at 35000 feet


Darryl

 

[Don Burke]

adder70 once bubbled... OK, if all of the SI measurements are so neat, how many liters in a cubic meter?

That would be 1000. That isn't all that different from the number of quarts in a cubic yard.

adder70 once bubbled... The liter is a superfluous measurement devised only to make daily life easier.

Actually, I consider making daily life easier a very noble goal.

adder70 once bubbled... Since a cubic meter is fairly large, the term liter was devised for a common size of container.

Sort of like the quart and pint?

Actually, if my depth guage read in rods and my spg read in grains per square cubit, it would do little to affect the way I dive.

I _do_ wish it would settle one way or the other so I can toss nearly half of my wrenches. This dual system is getting pretty old.

 

[Knavey]

dvleemin once bubbled...
Eventually its going to happen to the US, its just a matter of time. Industry is already doing it, and lots of other things that aren't readily visible to the average American. The one big one, visibly at least, is the speed limit signs. But eventually they need to be replaced, and I could easily see their replacement showing both miles and KMs, and then eventually just KMs.

In any case, up here in Canada I use both.

Pints of beer
Litres of milk
Tire pressure in PSI
Drive in KM/H
Gas mileage in mpg
Gas in Litres
Dive in feet/psi
Temperature in Farenheit
Poeple's Height in Feet
People's Weight in Pounds
All other weight in KGs
Distance in Kms

Even in Canada, imperial is used all over the place.

You go to the grovery store and buy meat in both pound and kgs.
The trades all measure using feet and inches
When you fly, they tell you you're cruising at 35000 feet


Darryl

Disagree. They have tried those speed limit signs...they went out of style about 10 years ago. Metric failed. Sure some people somewhere will try to resurrect it, but it will be met with failure again.

Best argument so far...You figure out how to make the NFL use metric instead of yards, and I will admit that the US will go metric.

Until then, my metric wrenches will continue to be used only when I can't find my cresent wrench.

 

[Don Burke]

Knavey once bubbled... Best argument so far...You figure out how to make the NFL use metric instead of yards, and I will admit that the US will go metric.

Even baseball, "the national pastime" had some fence distances in both feet and meters for a while. I haven't seen that inside the US for some time now.

I don't think full metric is within 50 years for the US. Most people here have settled into a dual system.

 

[String]

Im in the UK and was born in the transition imperial > metric.

The result is im an odd kind of hybrid unable to adopt one system fully.

Temperatures, metric. Fahrenheit means nothing to me

Weights, im still using pounds and stone.

Measures, litres although pints when it goes to drink.

Distances, imperial. I understand miles/miles per hour but km/h means absolutely nothing to me. The only exception in diving is i use meters as my gauges and tables are all meters.

Pressures im definately bar as opposed to psi.