Making me divide by 12: that’s a paddlin’.
> console.log(`${Math.trunc(74/12)}' ${74 % 12}"`) 6' 2"I never could understand why they made us learn multiplication tables up to twelve. This is why, isn’t it?
We only went up to ten in germany, so yea probably.
Also my god those things are pointless.
Now if only we used a duodecimal number system. Then I could divide by 2, 3, 4, and 6 while staying within the integers for as long as possible. And someone who is 6’ 2" would just be 6212"
Metric system:
- Tons of great subdivisions
- Continuously and exclusively use the same two or three prefixes for everything ever
Tons of great subdivisions
2,5 and 10 is “Tons”?
The world is flat, birds aren’t real, and there are only three prefixes in the metric system. You get it.
All the prefixes are just base ten though, so who cares? They don’t add more subdivisions.
If you’re trying to make a point, I missed it.
You said the metric system has tons of great subdivision which is objectively false. Prefixes in the metric system only multiply by 10, which by definition does not and cannot add additional sub-divisions. The point is that while the metric system is a useful system of measurement in very limited situations, the biggest advocates for it have no idea why they like it, and are ignorant of it’s deficiency’s.
Let’s try to raise the discourse a bit. Divisors are absolutely the most important part of a human-centric numeric and unit system, and the metric system, being a base 10 system, absolutely sucks at that.
Elaborate on how it’s “objectively false” that there are plenty of subdivisions, especially lots of subdivisions that aren’t frequently used.
This should be good.
10 has 2 divisors, or “subdivisions,” that is not “plenty” that is 2. Thus it is false, objectively, to claim that 2 and 5 are “plenty.”
Fuck your freedom units. I’ll stick to sane units of measurement thank you.
Personally I find 6 big unit + 2 small unit easier to visualize compared to a large number of small units 🤷♂️
That’s because your conditioned to do so. If you grow up with cm as your default height measurement it’s just as natural as your 4 foot 6 or whatever. 180cm i can easily visualise, it’s not that either is inherently better (although you know in your heart the metric system is superior 😉)
Yeah, the adult range is roughly 150cm for a tiny woman, up to 200cm for a towering man. 170cm is pretty average for a woman. 180cm is pretty average for a man.
So, 188cm is already a rather tall man.
Use decimetres I guess
everyone is gonna look at you funny but you’ll have your medium sized units
So you use SI units?
Most of them, I hadn’t heard of the term until your reply., never used Kelvin, mole or candela before.
That’s 0.00934 furlongs!
Do Europeans really give their height in cm? You’d think they short hand it like to like 1.7m or whatever since height is one of those things that doesn’t really need to be exact and will change by a cm or so based on the kind of shoes you are wearing, or wearing shoes at all.
Unless you happen to be 2 meters tall, yes, you would give your height in cm. You might round it, but you’d never say you’re 1.8m tall.
In my native language we say the equivalent of ‘one and eighty-five’ to refer to 185 cm of height, so basically we give it in meters.
I just say “one sixty five”, and so do most people in the Netherlands (most use different numbers though)
Yes where I live, we use cm usually. Also height is almost always measured without shoes
Not European, but from a country that also uses the metric system. We give out our height in meters, as you said. Saying it in cm would be okey for medical reasons I suppose. Also there isn’t much difference in what unit you use, you just have to multiply/divide by 100, which is easily done in your head
You always do it in cm wherever I’ve been. It’s either directly in cm, as in 172 cm or phrased in meters, as in 1.72 m. You cab say you’re around 170 cm tall or around 1.7 m tall, but the ‘default precision level’ is 1 cm
176cm would be given as “eins-sechsundsiebzig” in German, literally translating to one six and seventy (yeah it’s backwards), which works exactly like currency.
Particularly for folks with long spines, height can change significantly throughout the day.
Germans do go with meters when talking about their height but they’ll give you two decimal places.
Japan does too, at least from all the manga etc I’ve read. Not in meters either, just cm.
When the metric system was introduced in the UK, the schools taught decimeters, decameters and hectometers, not knowing that no one would ever bother with those.
You can round it to 10’s or 5’s.
My licence says 183 cm. I’ll usually say 180.
Edit: so the cartoon guy would probably just say 190cm
He’s 6’2" but I needed a calculator to figure it out.
I didn’t, but only because I am 6’2".
Those are two separate measurements ladies 😉
Mathless morons should be exiled to the middle of the saharan desert with a 5l bottle of water and a metric measure map to the nearest settlement
Jokes on you, the entire US military operates that way.
Maybe thats where i got the idea
He wants to do the math twice!
I don’t get why Americans and some other countries don’t use metric system. Guys! x10, x100, x1000 or mm, m, cm, km is way easier than 🦶, ", ', mile, yard or whatever weapon you use to hurt yourself lol. I know scientists get that, but its easy for them to convert anyway. Imagine that 120 cent is 1$ haha
I’m familiar with both, but only use inch for screen size and for some specific pipes that are made in ". And yeah, the guy from the picture is 188 cm tall or 1,88 m. Don’t think anyone use 10th of the mm for that and even if they did they would probably say 1879,6 mm
There’s no real reason for it other than familiarity (and maybe some silly tribalism among certain people). I think if switching systems was as easy as flicking a light switch, most Americans would be fine with it. However, the mental effort it would take to unlearn the old system (especially for those in construction/carpentry and similar jobs) and the amount of tax money it would take to change signage just doesn’t seem worth it. Personally I’d like to see us slowly update signage to include both measurements and teach only metric in school, but it’s so far down the list of priorities that it’s unlikely to happen any time soon.
I was mostly joking, but to use metric system you don’t have to do much, just learn it. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting I’ll change the world aynway haha
Knowing both is useful and IMO it is the easiest for engineers and construction/production workers. For example here where I am, a lot of measurement tools have both units already (like measuring tape with meters and inches)
A base 12 system is better then base10 objectively, because divisors are what make numbers useful and avoid decimals and fractions.
How much is that in bananas?
That is one of the many many ways someone gets shot in American schools.
Question, why do Europeans measure height in meters then centimeters(or just centimeters). It seems to make more sense to use decimeters then centimeters. Just one of those traditional things?
I’m trying to think of anything measured in decimeters.
M / cm It’s such a large difference in length you’d think decimeters would make sense.
You just shuffle zeroes
It’s not needed, because converting between them takes no effort.
If someone tells you “50 centimeter”, you’ll know immediately that it’s 5 decimeter or 0.5 meter.
Liter
All these comments, and I’m wondering who would ask someone about their height like this…it’s pretty easy to estimate someone’s height just by observation.
Eh, I’ve seen it as a smalltalk topic, to just want to know what the height is precisely, especially when someone is particularly tall.
