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[Nealio]

This is America, we're rebelling against the metric system just like we've done everything else over the last 200 years.

I honestly hate the metric system and I am Canadian. I use both metric and imperial at work though, but that's what happens when you are dealing with customers in both North America and world wide. I don't mind imperial to be honest, it's easier for precision machining to use it.

Yeah, I mean there's nothing more easier than using measurements like "one eighth of an inch", or "seven sixteenths of an inch" over somthing like 2mm or 8mm.

[Seán]

it's so nice to see you boys finally agreeing on something.

[SmashySmashy]

This is America, we're rebelling against the metric system just like we've done everything else over the last 200 years.

I honestly hate the metric system and I am Canadian. I use both metric and imperial at work though, but that's what happens when you are dealing with customers in both North America and world wide. I don't mind imperial to be honest, it's easier for precision machining to use it.

Yeah, I mean there's nothing more easier than using measurements like "one eighth of an inch", or "seven sixteenths of an inch" over somthing like 2mm or 8mm.

Considering when I use a manual or automatic grinder, I can grind something to within 1,000th of an inch of the required measurement, it's far more accurate then using metric.

[Nealio]

Er.......both unit are as accurate as each other. That, is unquestionable. All I said, was that the metric system is far easier to work with.

I've worked with both systems. I started out with imperial, but local councils insisted that we all had to switch to metric. When we made the switch, granted, it was a bitch to get used to, but once you pass that point, it was so simple. Going back to imperial would be an absolute balls.

[Blueswallaby]

I started out imperial, but local councils insisted we all had to switch to the rebellion. Which worked out nicely in the end.

[Nealio]

Did you get a go on one of those Stromtrooper bike thingys?

[James_Coolidge]

Where I come from, we measure distance in hours.

[Derf!]

Did you get a go on one of those Stromtrooper bike thingys?

Speeder bikes. Or Hover Bikes if you're one of those people.

[joelhike007]

They're Speeders. And Ewoks don't exist. Fuck Ewoks, that was supposed to be a planet full of Wookiees.

[Nealio]

Yeah, I thought they were speeder bikes. But it sounded too obvious.

[James_Coolidge]

I have an Ewok. People think he's a dog.

[Blueswallaby]

.....k

[gusdotcom]

This is America, we're rebelling against the metric system just like we've done everything else over the last 200 years.

I honestly hate the metric system and I am Canadian. I use both metric and imperial at work though, but that's what happens when you are dealing with customers in both North America and world wide. I don't mind imperial to be honest, it's easier for precision machining to use it.

Yeah, I mean there's nothing more easier than using measurements like "one eighth of an inch", or "seven sixteenths of an inch" over somthing like 2mm or 8mm.

Considering when I use a manual or automatic grinder, I can grind something to within 1,000th of an inch of the required measurement, it's far more accurate then using metric.

That's it. That's the proof that you are well and truly retarded. In the metric system when have something called prefixes and something called a decimal point. With those two, you can get meassurments that are less than one meter, which is the base by one of two very simple steps. Instead of expressing it as a fraction of the base, we use a decimal system. So half a meter can be written as 0.5 meter. One thousands of a meter is thus 0.001 meter. To stop this from getting out of hand, we have prefixes with names borrowed from latin. For small things we have milli which means one thousands, micro which means one millionth and so on. So one thousands of a meter, 0.001 m, can also be written as one millimetre, 1 mm. The same way you can write one thousands of a millimetre as either 0.001 mm or as one micrometer, 1 µm. This goes all the way down to attometer, am, which is ten to the power of mines fifteen meters. That corresponds to the size of electrons, quarks and strings.

So it turns out we have arbitrary resolution and precision in our system. The base 1000 means that very large and very small numbers can easily be converted.

[Derf!]

You da man, Gus.

[James_Coolidge]

.....k

You don't even know.

[Blueswallaby]

oh, dont be

[James_Coolidge]

Whatever, man.

[SmashySmashy]

Where I come from, we measure distance in hours.

That's what people like to call "guesstimating"

[SmashySmashy]

This is America, we're rebelling against the metric system just like we've done everything else over the last 200 years.

I honestly hate the metric system and I am Canadian. I use both metric and imperial at work though, but that's what happens when you are dealing with customers in both North America and world wide. I don't mind imperial to be honest, it's easier for precision machining to use it.

Yeah, I mean there's nothing more easier than using measurements like "one eighth of an inch", or "seven sixteenths of an inch" over somthing like 2mm or 8mm.

Considering when I use a manual or automatic grinder, I can grind something to within 1,000th of an inch of the required measurement, it's far more accurate then using metric.

That's it. That's the proof that you are well and truly retarded. In the metric system when have something called prefixes and something called a decimal point. With those two, you can get meassurments that are less than one meter, which is the base by one of two very simple steps. Instead of expressing it as a fraction of the base, we use a decimal system. So half a meter can be written as 0.5 meter. One thousands of a meter is thus 0.001 meter. To stop this from getting out of hand, we have prefixes with names borrowed from latin. For small things we have milli which means one thousands, micro which means one millionth and so on. So one thousands of a meter, 0.001 m, can also be written as one millimetre, 1 mm. The same way you can write one thousands of a millimetre as either 0.001 mm or as one micrometer, 1 µm. This goes all the way down to attometer, am, which is ten to the power of mines fifteen meters. That corresponds to the size of electrons, quarks and strings.

So it turns out we have arbitrary resolution and precision in our system. The base 1000 means that very large and very small numbers can easily be converted.

Yeah, cause you know, they are going to put decimals to 4 places just to give you the right measurement on a CAD drawing, waste of space in our business where components can be upwards of several feet long and have so many object placements such as bolt and dowel pin holes, cuts, grooves etc etc. Metric just isn't favorable in an industry that is dominated by American companies on this side of the ocean. We still use metric on occasion, but only if we are doing work for production lines outside North America and Mexico, like our new facility in China.

Besides, the customers in my industry are mainly American automotive companies, who don't use metric. All our CNC and manual machines are natively Imperial, since that's what the company uses most, but at least they can switch to metric with the computers in them. They never did properly teach metric when I was in school, 9 times out of 10 our measurements were in Imperial.

[Nealio]

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EDIT: Nope. I'm not going to bother replying to that.