Why The Imperial System Is Stupid (metric system explained)
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- This video is about why is the metric system better than the imperial system. IN this video I will cover why the metric system is better than the American imperial system. I will also cover two crashes and why they are connected to not having one singular system. In the end please help out my channel by subscribing and please watch more of my videos down below
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0:35 conversion error: 1 km = 1 000 m = 100 000 cm = 1 000 000 mm
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I'm six foot, three inches, two straws and a match stick tall. I weigh seven stones, two rocks and handfull of pebbles....:-D
imagine memory storage use imperials.. your 16 gb ram be like dollops
Well inches are generally split the same way memory storage is. 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 etc.
How many bytes in a gb?
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A gigabyte contains 2 ^ [10 ^ (10 ^ 10)]bytes
@@5batsupertourer 2^30 bytes are in a gigabyte
@@alexcrowder1673 12 inches in a foot. 36 inches in a yard. 63,360 inches in a mile. 6,272,640 inches² to an acre. 14.4375 inches³ to a cup. 57.75 inches³ to a quart. Insanity... and a burden on American productivity.
As an aerospace student some time ago I had to prepare a paper on propulsion turbo pumps. Most of the work I found was from the US. They used for volumetric flow cubic inch, cubic foot or gallons and that either per second, minute or hour. This gives you numbers which differ by a factor up to a million. This was ridiculous and it took me some time to prepare a correct conversion table. The engineers at MBB loved that.
How to communicate if one side talks about pineapple and the other about peanuts without telling each other. This is a massive source of error. And you don’t Even need to talk with Europeans this error range was just inside the US. That’s the merit of the metric system. Everybody is talking the same language. That’s why metric rules the world.
Agreed, I've always hated the imperial system. I'm from the UK and while we're mostly metric now, people still use miles for distances and speeds. I swear I'm the only person who uses kilometres. It's so much more convinient- for example 7.5 kilometres is exactly 7,500 metres. I just love how you can easily convert it to smaller units- and I actually find it easiest to visualise long distance in metres. And when measuring your height, metric is extremely accurate. "Inch" is the smallest unit of imperial, but metric goes down to centimetres and millimetres. Pitch perfect accuracy! Saying I'm 171cm tall is a lot more accurate than saying 5'7.
Similar thing in Canada we are mostly metric except when discussing area in sqft rather than meters square. I wish it changes down the line.
Actually what you are saying it is easy... So, you are not intelligent enough to use the imperial system which is more accurate.
It is not about accuracy the imperial system is actually based off the metric system but the metric system has an easy intuitive system that greatly reduces the change of conversion errors.
@@ON-YT The imperial system is NOT based off of the metric system, it has been defined using the metric system. There is a huge difference.
That is the problem with distance in metric. There is nothing on a human scale in metric like a foot. mm and cm are in many cases are too small and meters are too big. This is where the imperial system shines, it is based on scale things not some random "scientific thing". Like the original definition of a meter was 1 10millionth the distance from the equator to the northpole. No human can visualize that in their mind. They can visualize a human foot.
Americans still don't get it. There are no unit conversions in SI, because why the hell would you have different units for measuring the same quantity in the same system? The prefixes don't make a different unit, they are simply a shorthand for orders of magnitude. 1mm is just another way of writing 0.001m or 1e-3m or 1x10^-3m, they are all the same quantity measured with the same unit and system of measurement, just different notations of how to write it.
Yes, that is right. I am aware of the fact that the prefixes don't make a different unit but I think I should have made that more clear.
We understand that. The different units for the same kind of measure are one reason why US Customary units are so convenient. Machinists use inches, because they work on small objects. Surveyors use feet, which are better suited to the scale of their work. Track distances used to be in yards, before track went metric - a yard is about the same as a meter. Road maps will mark distances in miles. We don’t often mix units, but there are a few places where we do. A person’s height will usually be given in feet and inches, for example.
@@GH-oi2jf There is nothing convenient about it, people only keep using USC because that's what they have always used. Tradition has a way of perpetuating itself without any regard to practicality. Not indefinitely though, people and organizations switching to metric happens fairly regularly, inverse almost never does, it might take couple generations but USC is going to be completely phased out sooner or later.
I worked as an exchange student in the US in 84. Already then engineers would convert imperial to metric, do the calculations then convert back to imperial. Faster and less error prone.
Thats the thing, you think we don't understan how metric works. We do!!!! It just doesn't work for US!!! You people try to use metric logic to understand UCS and wonder why you don't get it. That's like trying to use Spanish grammer rules to figure out Russian. For example....I hear so many people say I don't get why in imperial water freezing is 32f and not 0. That is trying to use metric logic on imperial. When you have to realize that imperial temps have nothing to do with the freezing point of water but rather the temperature of the human body. Stop trying to use metric rules to understand imperial.
Americans: You see that statue over there? It's 7364,92 imaginary numbers away or 52,7 colors which equals 326,372,140 crayons.
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Way, way late to the party, aviation has a certain cavets. It uses Nautical miles for ground distance as this matches 360 degrees striations on a map hence the "nautical" making it easier to do calculations that meters is utterly useless for. A Knot is 1NM an hour avoiding conversion for navigation. Same for wind speed. Height is measured in feet (Historical default), as airspace is organised in decimals of feet which you will never, ever convert that to anything else.
Visibility and short distances is in meters/Km as that is the most used unit to "Eyeball". US unofficially break this because highways.
The units being so different helps prevent mistakes as it has a built in sanity check mixing of units or other errors create large deviation from expected values are instantly detected. "Ascend to 3000 meters" would have the crew instantly ask for a correction as that has an error factor of 3. A civilian will never fly at 1000 knots which is ~500M/S!! or ~mach 1.6. "100m/s" misread as Knots would stall most airliners or well above landing speed for light aircraft. Feet sort of "disappears" pass 13000 ft (Transition altitude) into "Flight levels" which make it extremely clear what height you cruise as it also contains a direction sanity check (Odd, even, compass). FL13000 would be about where the ISS orbits.
PRC intentionally broke critical altitude conventions in their airspace I guess because they want to be special or something. otoh Russia transitioned to feet. While ICAO does recommend switching to metric with some important exceptions, without everybody agreeing to the change it's a needless headache and conversions bad.
Everything else though work in metric or should be.
If it works so well why do we have 24 hours in in a day instead of 20 it would be much easier to calculate but simplicity is the home for stupidity
The international nautical mile is defined in metric terms (1 NM = 1,852 m).
for us (engineers) is a pain in the ass to convert units to a retarded innacurate system as the imperial, it leads to SO MANY ERRORS
If unit conversions are a challenge for you, you have no business being an engineer, period.
@@costakeith9048 it seems that being so stupid it's no a challenge to you.
@@azathoz I'm a mathematician, I find arithmetic to be relaxing and fun, like some people view crossword puzzles. The last thing in the world I would want is to reduce the amount of arithmetic I need to do in my day to day life, the more the merrier.
@@costakeith9048 I'm a computer engineer and what you said is like wanting us to keep programing in machine code instead of modern languages like Java or Python because we, as engineers, should embrace messier and outdated programming languages, so I consider it something very stupid to say. The Metric system is superior to the imperial in almost every aspect, and we've seen accidents provoked by errors in conversions between the two systems (and guess who's fault is). To say that we should keep using a system that lost it's usefulness centuries ago because you're a mathematician and love to do unit conversions is plain dumb and has no justification beyond your own ego.
@@azathoz I've done a bit of programming over the years, though I studied traditional mathematics at university much of my career has been in applied mathematics, specifically developing and optimizing algorithms and mathematical modeling, given there's a one-to-one correlation between machine code and assembly language, I see no reason not to use assembly language, but, yes, machine code is superior to Java or Python. I absolutely hate working in languages like those you never have a clue what the complier is going to do; you write what you think is perfectly good code then you look at the compiled result and it's an absolutely unreadable and inefficient mess with dozens upon dozens of completely unnecessary operations. Fortran and C are acceptable lazy alternatives if you don't really need to get all the efficiency possible, but if you want to get serious with your algorithms and take full advantage of all the tricks of binary arithmetic or set up recursion in the most efficient manner possible, you're going to need to get back to the basics.
But, no, the metric system is not superior, base 12 mathematics is vastly superior to base 10 mathematics simply because of the number of factors and base 12 is found far more often in the US customary system than in metric. But there is one change I would make to the US system if I could, I'd go back to using Troy weights for everything, not just metals, instead of the French Avoirdupois weights. While the base 16 the Avoirdupois is still superior to base 10 and is admittedly nice for programming, it would be preferable if it were base 12 again.
Imperial is so ridiculous that it NEEDS metric to have a standard.
'Americans will not be forced to use any particular measurement system' -- does this mean you can buy sugar in millicorollas and micro747s?
yup
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I didn't know that in the past everyone believed that the Earth was round. At 4:20
No switch! Americans are unable to deal with change, no matter how easy and valuable.
I can't believe the algorithm is not backing this video, this is a must for the entire humanity.
I really had to laugh about your comments at 8:14 on making the video longer :)
And while typing this, I notice you have 404 subscribers at the moment. I think they're all lost by this time.
I’m sure there was a gauge on the plane to let them know how much fuel they have on board. Why didn’t they land earlier somewhere?
The gauge was broken short circuit I think and it was a new plane at the time so they did not have as many spare parts. ua-cam.com/video/8y8JBAr8dZ4/v-deo.htmlsi=Msi36m5JXCxPZnAY
So true.
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What's with the background music??
just the wrong music for the video and seems to be a bit to high I believe.
Unfortunately, the background music was created using an imperialnome instead of a metronome.
What is a half a tank of gas in metrics?
Depends how big it is.
Imperial/American Burger Units
0:39 lmao
RLL uses toyota corolla measurement.
Thank you for making this. I'm American and the imperial system is an absolute embarrassment. Even our products use these stupid imperial screws that no one can get replacements for outside of the US. No wonder no one wants american made products. They are 3 times as expensive, not any better quality, and you can't repair them as easily because most countries dont sell parts with imperial measurements. Almost everything thats decent thats made in america has been cloned by china and made not just cheaper, but better quality and with logical measurements. They are often not proprietary like american made garbage is either. 3d printing is a prime example. Every american made 3d printing part gets made cheaper and better from china. Thats how i built my badass 3d printer for under 200 bucks, chinese clone parts of american products. I can print any material up to 350c with my setup. Plus i can actually replace parts on my setup because its not proprietary garbage like american printers. One of the american 3d printers even has proprietary nozzles lol. So instead of paying literally 60 cents a nozzle for the standard nozzle that all other 3d printers take, you have to buy theirs for more than 20 dollars a piece lol. I could literally get a tungsten nozzle for that price and never replace it again because tungsten is the freaking king of all metals. It conducts heat great and its basically indestructible. Its also mindbogglingly heavy. I like using giant tungsten bearings for slingshot ammo. You cant even imagine the thud it makes lol. It makes a slingshot with heavy bands even more powerful than a .44 magnum. You can make bullets out of it too. Makes the very best duck shot. Infact i dont think you can legally even hunt duck with lead anymore. Not in america anyways. Also whats the deal with america not having any good titanium or tungsten manufacturers? I literally have to ship all my fancy screws from china. Last time i went to an american hardware store the guy didnt even know what an m3 screw was..... he asked if m3 was a brand name..... thats a problem lol. Even the guys at the hardware store dont understand the metric system...
The funny thing is, metric has already set foot in many fundamental areas and just been converted to imperial at the last "mile" to please the audience.
Neil deGrasse Tyson seems to have dropped a similar pun in a video on the metric system here on UA-cam, but I wasn't sure if he even noticed it himself, or whether it was just his friend there that didn't notice. He said something like "we're slowly inching toward the metric system".
Gigia.
0:40 It's Giga, not Gigia.
Metric is OK.
I sometimes use it.
In a scientific setting, and in some other settings, sure, metric is the way to go.
Imperial, though, picks up where the abilities of metric end.
The choice of being able to decimalize or fractionalize imperial units fills gaps in the graduation of units that metric absolutely cannot address.
A metric person may argue against that until shown examples of imperial's superiority in being able to do so.
That argumentative metric person will back off when shown the truth.
Fractionalization, again, in this case used as a means of its own, is a very convenient feature of imperial that metric falls far behind on.
Metric and imperial are not superior and inferior systems, nor vice versa.
They are different systems.
Each has areas in which they excel, and each has areas where they fall short of other systems.
The naysayers are quick to point out a few unfortunate events associated with the mixing of metric and imperial.
They say those are the fault of the imperial system.
Equally true is to say that the fault was due to the introduction of the metric system.
See how the truth works?
The naysayers also question using more than one system when metric is the supposed be-all, end-all form of measurement.
Simply because it is not the be-all, end-all.
See my opening statements for my reasoning.
The issue of conversion between units is a valid, but weak, argument.
I say that conversion "ain't no hill for a climber".
It's not a big deal.
It's not required as often as one may think.
I see commenters often posing ridiculous argumentative examples in regard to conversion.
It's plain to see that for the most part, they are contrived, non-real-world conversion examples.
Not all, but many.
I'm not one to throw out a good thing.
I fully expect downvotes and dissention.
If you come at me and have no idea what you're talking about, you will be dismissed.
Intelligent conversation will be welcome.
Americans are already using the Metric System. Since around 1990?
When you buy an SSD into your home computer, or just handle a file size, you don't use the following fictive imperial units:
• 1 binch = 25 bytes
• 1 boot (pl. beet) = 305 bytes or 12 binches and 5 bytes
• 1 byle = 1631 bytes, or 5 beet and 3 binches and 6 bytes
Americans use Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes. It's Metric. 😏Now imagine you as an American are forced to use the imperial units above, starting with Windows Explorer or Mac Finder displaying file sizes with them. It would cause a rage, and not because you are used to Metric System in IT but because it's bulsh**
no such thing as 'imperial system' there's human measurements and american nonsense.
The US is metric in most situations, but tey don´t know. Let´s imagine a basketball game, in which one three throw is 0.5 inch, the 23ft 9" (7,24 metres) throw is equal to 1.5 inch 1 inch, and 12 points is equal to 1 foot, and etcetera. "How did the game end? Oh, it was 8ft 3.5" x 7 ft 8.5". " If the game goes to overtime, the score gets even more bizarre. That just doesn´t make sense, that ´s not logical, to say the least.
02:36 Please don't use a footage about Canada when you talk about the USA. Thanks.
Lol embarrassing that NASA uses the imperial system. Smh
they are going all in on metric now, guess they learned their lesson www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html
The presenter doesn’t even know that the United States has never used the Imperial System, which was introduced half a century after the American Revolution. He probably doesn’t know that we adopted the metric system in 1866 and have participated in its development since 1875, when we were a member of the Convention du Mètre. We are officially bimetral and make use of metric units in many aspects of commerce. What we do not do is compel our citizens to give up our customary units. We are free to use whatever units suit our purpose.
What he also doesn't seem to realize (and most people who try to push metric on the US) is that there is almost no benefit in everyday life to go through the trouble of converting. How is telling someone to drive 1km and make a right better than telling them to go 1/2 a mile and make a right? How is seeing the weather temp as 24c better than seeing it as 75f?
No, just NO
Yes, just YES!
@@FenrirKi No... because they used a mix of methods. by the way... has your country landed on the moon?
@@jonlanier_ by the way, I’ve been told NASA uses metric.
@@jonlanier_ 1. other countries have got to the moon,e.g. soviet union 2. NASA uses metric 3. switching to imperial is way more disruptive than switching to metric,only three countries uses imperial 4. metric uses base10 which is much simpler,now tell me how many inches are in a foot,you probably wouldn’t know the answer without googling,now how many centimeters are in a kilometer,100 cm is in a meter,1000 m is in a km,100 * 1000,see much simpler.
@@jonlanier_ I hate to break it to you but the guy that made the Saturn V rocket was a german scientist named Von Braun,spoiler alert,germans use metric,by the way this is also the same guy that during ww2 made the V1-V2 rockets.
Americans really don't know anything about their country.
I'm from England, and the imperial system is better. We were only forced to go metric after we were illegaly taken into the EEC/EU in 1972 by Premier Edward Heath. Heath did this by breaking both his word and our Constitution. However, we are still not fully metric, distances are still by miles as are speed in miles per hour or consumption in miles per gallon and shorter distances in yards. We still drink pints of beer and buy a dozen eggs etc.
Even my French wife prefers imperial for pictures sizes 10× 8 is far easier than 25.4 x 20.34 for instance. The imperial system is a natural system, based on the natural world. From sun rise to sun set is 12 hours, not 10. There are 12 months in a year and measurements are based on the human body, 12 inches to a foot and 4 inches across a hand. So the number 12 is a natural unit of measurement. Even the EU dictatorship that Britain was forced to join, has in its flag 12 stars, not 10. Why is this you ask ? Well the EU declares that:
"The number 12 is the symbol of completeness unity and perfection"
I rest my case ! 👍😁
I assume that you're an 70+ old person? Sounds like that because of glorifying a dumb measurement system only used by people like dumb Americans who don't even know where Asia is.
@@Desertfox18
You assume too much, and know to little.
You call Americans dumb, while revealing your own dumbness.
Idiot reasoning, and very English, what connection between eggs and the metric system? We sell them by 10, by 8, by 6, by 4 all over the world. De Gaulle was right not to want you in the EU. You have always followed the USA.
Good idea.
Nah. Metric is the stupid one not my American system.
Your the stupid one for defending retard units.
Proof lol?
Also 99% of every country uses metric.
Also
1km = 1000 meters
1 mile = 1760 yards
Its so much easier to use.
100% except for temperature. Fahrenheit is far superior to Celsius.
Kelvin wins.
@@forestmanzpedia if you're a scientist. For everyday use by the populous Fahrenheit wins outright.
@@texasforever7887 Only in air temperature here on earth.
Celsius is based on Kelvin, because they have the same magnitude. Base numbers: 0°K = -273°C. 0°C = 273°K. 100 = 373°K. This simple addition and subtraction of °C and °K doesn't work in °F.
In °F, this is equal to 0°K = -273°C = -460°F, 273°K = 0°C = 32°F and 373°K = 100°C = 212°F. Conversion of °K/°C in °F is messy and inaccurate.
While Kelvin is based on thermodynamic temperatures in the whole universe, Celsius uses 273°K and 373°K as the freezing and boiling point of water, hence 0°C and 100°C.
Therefore, you can measure temperatures of the whole universe with Kelvin and easily convert it to Celsius, while both numbers accurate. °F can't be used to measure temperatures in the universe nor of water, due to it's inaccuracy.
@@forestmanzpedia in your daily life what do you use the temperature to measure?
@@texasforever7887 I fully switched to Celsius a few years ago (phone, car, furnace, and wireless weather station). At first I was thinking that I would need to use half degrees, like 22.5 °C. It turns out that's completely not necessary. Indoors there's often a full degree difference in temperature just from one side of a room to the other. Outside a quick 30 second walk can easily move you to air that is at least a degree warmer or cooler. The weather report prediction is almost always a least a couple degrees off. The smaller units of Fahrenheit seem nice, but in actual everyday common usage the precision of Celsius works great.
Your arguments are strawman arguments. First, the Airplane incident and the Mars orbiter were not caused by the Imperial system, it was caused due to conversion issues. Both would have been successful if they were done all in Imperial. You are trying to blame a system for the failures of a conversion. Second, your example of the US using all different kinds of measurements was the exact reason that France switched to the Metric system. What you are describing is a lack of standardization. France's and Europe's measurement systems had very little standardization so the Metric system offered that. The US never had that problem. Our units have always been standardized. Once again, this doesn't have anything to do with the system of measurement, but with its application. Third, units in the Imperial system are related to each other, albeit not as conveniently as in the Metric system, but there are relations. Finally, the US does actually use Metric in STEM fields including NASA, in international industry, and in the military. Basically anywhere that deals with the international community. However, we don't use it in our everyday lives, because quite frankly, there is no benefit to doing so.
It is good they do but it would be nice if the rest of the country got along with the rest of the world and went metric
Thanks for your comment
Imperial and metric do have one thing in common. They are both incompatible with imperial.