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tooki:

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If the French people were united in using imperial in the 1800's they would not have invented metric. And today's scientists would have settled on using a single unit-base (say inches for distance and lb's for weight, but it really doesn't matter which ones we use) for ease of comparing apples to apples and doing conversions with a formula vs writing it all out. There would be zero difference in science, engineering, and chemistry.

There are 437.5 grains in "an oz." An oz is an oz, unless otherwise specified. The other oz's continue to exist because people still use them in specific industries. If an industry decided they want to use Troy kilograms, which are 958 grams, that would not be the fault of metric.

There's a drawback to metric. After an asteroid hits earth, the length of a meter will change, and of our constants will have to be adjusted. >:D

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Please stop stripping off the author from the quote tags and/or quoting by copying and pasting by hand. If you just use the quote button on a post, then the quote tag becomes clickable so that readers can click it to see the source of the quoted text.
Altair8800:

--- Quote from: schmitt trigger on November 05, 2019, 03:32:43 pm ---@ Altair8800:
I don't know how long it took you to compose that, but it is certainly the post of the month.  :-+

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The above was written by an anonymous UseNet Oracle priest before the Internet.  The WWW/hyperlink/Internet as we know it started in early 90's but really took off exponentially in mid 90's.  Before then, there was USENET (and Internet Relay Chat and email) in which UseNet was an early Forum Boards in the 80's connecting mostly Unix and Main Frame computers.

Talking about these old things, I'm not just dating myself, I'm carbon dating myself...  ;)
soldar:
In Spanish we call each of those chocolate squares an ounce (onza). It took me many years, well into adulthood, to realize "onza" did not really mean "a square of chocolate" but was actually the weight (mass) of one of those squares.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: KL27x on November 05, 2019, 06:48:23 pm ---
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If the French people were united in using imperial in the 1800's they would not have invented metric.

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If the French decided to use imperial we would still be defining the inch as the length of some nasty appendix of the anatomy of the King of England.

Instead the meter is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: soldar on November 05, 2019, 07:36:16 pm ---In Spanish we call each of those chocolate squares an ounce (onza). It took me many years, well into adulthood, to realize "onza" did not really mean "a square of chocolate" but was actually the weight (mass) of one of those squares.

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The Spanish ounce is 443,68 grains. Troy grains, that is.
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