Metric or Imperial Measurements..

[S3NSA]

I was brought up using Metric [is 17] but I find it far easier to judge distance and work in imperial.

Imperial = feet, inches, stone, pounds.

Metric = Centimetres, Metres, Kilograms, grams.

I was wondering how many people were brought up in imperial but now use metric, or have stayed to imperial. And vica versa.

[Lisa]

I was brought up using Metric and continue to.

[Sudden Death]

I cant really vote for any because I was brought up using both and continue to use both.

I measure usually in metric, for objects.. but I use imperial for measuring people.. Peoples height and peoples weight in imperial (feet and stone)

but then again for skiing etc. I need to use kilograms for my weight and in lots of places like theme parks I have to use metres for my height :) So I guess I use metric more =/

[S3NSA]

I just find it easier to see a distance and judge it in feet, i never really got into my mind how long a meter looked like from a distance.

Sudden you have a point, I should have added an extra category.

I was talking more about what you use to judge distance rather than what society accepts to be the norm for certain thing [i.e. height is still measured in feet].

[scruie]

I use Imperial for almost everything, still have to convert metric into imperial so I can grasp a better understanding of it. It's incredible confusing in the UK at the moment because we use a mixture of both - take supermarket shopping for an example I'll buy fruit and veg in lbs because I learnt all of my cooking from my Grandmother and that was what she used.

[enemy2u]

Don't know anything about imperial... How much is 1 meter in feet ?

[Lisa]

About three feet, eh.

We don't use imperial measurements at all here in Germany.

[Dark Hacker]

Yup in belgium everyone uses metric system and so do i. If i'd even ask for a pound of something, noone would understand me.

Btw i'm in university: fysics & astronomy. You can't calculate anything in imperial system.

[S3NSA]

You could if you converted it.

Scruie is right it is confusing in Britain they swap it around so much.

[Dark Hacker]

thesanctum:

N= m . a
a= d/t²

All of those formulas are in metric, converting all that stuff (even if it's just with a constant in the end), is just way too much.

[S3NSA]

Im not saying it isnt hard VanStino but that you can calculate in imperial.

People did it years ago didnt they?

[SHOOPUB3R]

I use imperial but if somthing is in metric I will just use a unit converter

[luck777jojo]

brought up n metric and always use metric, though in shops etc. everything is pretty much "per lb" here so forced to use pounds in that case. Not much of a big deal got used to it after a few years, still preffer metric system.

I mean 500km... okay... on a highway going 100km/h great I understand how far away that is, 500mi going 60mi/h, much more of a pain in the ass

[scruie]

You could if you converted it.

Scruie is right it is confusing in Britain they swap it around so much.

It's only because of the EU - silly your-o-pee-ons can't handle the superior Imperial system ;)

I expect in a few years time it will be all metric within the UK, though I don't know how I'll handle going 120km/h which to me is still about 70MP/h.

[S3NSA]

I've started learning how to ndrive [theory tets on tuesday :S] and going in km/h would confuse the hell out of me.

I find judging speed very easy in mp/h but if someone drove past and asked me how fats he was goig roughly in km/h I wouldn't have a clue.

Also Scruie you up for Keeping the pound!? Or do you prefer the euro? ._.

[Lisa]

There's no real reason why they would switch their strong pounds with the damn euro. ;/


At least Switzerland is doing everything correctly.

[Dark Hacker]

Well, people that say metric is more logical get the ***** price as every unit is purily random in every way. (Relativistic mechanics!)

To be more precise: (source = my course of mechanics :P)
- The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
- The kilogram is the unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram.
- The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.
- The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular cross-section, and placed 1 m apart in vacuum, would produce between these conductors a force equal to 2 x 10–7 newton per metre of length.
- The kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature, is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.
- 1. The mole is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon 12.
2. When the mole is used, the elementary entities must be specified and may be atoms, molecules, ions, electrons, other particles, or specified groups of such particles.
- The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 x 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian.

Could it be any more random? Normally the standard lenght should be something like 10^-10 metres as thats about the distance between a proton and an electron in a H-atom, but it would just be stupid to use something like that...

[rand0m]

I use Imperial for almost everything, still have to convert metric into imperial so I can grasp a better understanding of it. It's incredible confusing in the UK at the moment because we use a mixture of both

QFT.

>_<

[bloobs]

i think your brain is wired wrong if you prefer imperial
it is completely void of logic
metric owns it.

[Dark Hacker]

it is completely void of logic

Lol what did i just say in my post?

[ricgarcas]

Well thats is a weird poll, cuz we're not like professional scientists, and we commonly use the measurements we were brought up to. Here in Mexico we all use the metric or international ones.

[Ok3]

I agree with sudden death i use both of them or grew up using both imperial and metric.

[Kafro]

Well depending on which you learned when you were going up but i prefer metric because it is way easier to calculate.

[Rented]

Imperial as always - worldwide measurement which was used for thousands or years before . As a chef everything is metric but i always use imperial.

[[oC]pingu]

I was brought up on metric (being in lithuania and all), but now since i live in the usa, its imperial for me. which sucks because as soon as i cross the border to canada, i have to start converting to metric.