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Imperial lives side by side with two different names of paper where the only difference is tilting one 180 degrees.
I'm sorry but I can only lie to myself so much before I give up feet, its not worth it. "Letter" and "Tabloid" are the same.

Did you mean ledger and tabloid? And rotating 90 degrees?

[en.wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#No...can_paper_sizes

This post has been edited by Necromusume: Jul 11 2025, 03:12

Did you mean ledger and tabloid? And rotating 90 degrees?

[en.wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#No...can_paper_sizes

One cannot expect that a metric user should engage thought in matters concerning conversions more complex than moving a decimal point (or sometimes, a comma) left or right.

This post has been edited by nigreco451: Jul 20 2025, 16:09

metric on top anytime of the day

Imperial machining is interesting because they are practically using a metric system, just with inches instead of millimetres. Precision measurements are done in hundredths, thousandths, or ten-thousandths of an inch, and conversions are done by moving the decimal, just like in metric.
It's some kind of hybrid workflow that might be unique to machine shops

I think that we can easily convert Metric system to Imperial system and Viceversa. Living in a country which use Metric system I think that Metric system is more rational than Imperial metric system, and some discussion are reduced only to a futile patriottism

lol, pretty convincing argument with the "feet 🥵"
but I'll take metric any day. way less finnicky

Use imperial if you wanna imagine scale more accurately, (quarter of an inch, instead of 2 something centimeter. And also, math should be strictly using metric. Metricftw

Use imperial if you wanna imagine scale more accurately, (quarter of an inch, instead of 2 something centimeter. And also, math should be strictly using metric. Metricftw

That's not an advantage of the imperial system. That's just because you grew up with the imperial system. For someone who grew up with the metric system, imagining the scale of "20cm" is much easier than "7.874 inches".

Imperial is a fucking meme system that makes no sense. That being said I can use both, and don't understand the people who go through their entire lives only making things more difficult for themselves by not being fluent in both. Nobody thinks you're cooler for not understanding how far 5 miles is or how much 10 liters is. Just fucking learn it. It's not hard.

As a side note, I remember participating in a US high school science class where they taught the metric system, and they really made it sound so much more cryptic than it really is. And this was a "pro metric" teacher. No one in metric countries ever uses decaliters or hectometers etc. but the way it was taught made it seemed like you had to memorize these complex charts full of strange words to even use the metric system. Which is not how it's taught in countries that actually use it.