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soldar:

--- Quote from: KL27x on November 06, 2019, 07:30:09 pm ---All of the significant problem have been a dead horse for at least 60 years, since global recognition of a single imperial system that is defined by a metric standard, in 1959. The other stuff is just a curiosity, unless you work in the gold industry. The last imperial standing is completely plug and play with metric. US is compliant with international standards regarding imperial, agreed upon in 1959, if and when it uses imperial.
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The American system of measures is not the Imperial system. They are different. Gallons, threads, etc. Different.

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: KL27x on November 06, 2019, 07:30:09 pm ---All of the significant problem have been a dead horse for at least 60 years, since global recognition of a single imperial system that is defined by a metric standard, in 1959. The other stuff is just a curiosity, unless you work in the gold industry. The last imperial standing is completely plug and play with metric. US is compliant with international standards regarding imperial, agreed upon in 1959, if and when it uses imperial.

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Man, don't you know how to use the Quote button?

Anyway, the inch, the foot, the pound, the ounce, etc. are not metric units. They are not defined in that system. There are international agreements about their conversion rates, but it stops there. So, no, the imperial system is not plug and play with the metric system. Imperial is just a free-loader to the metric standards, because if imperial additionally had to define its own standards, it would be a second level of stupidity in a globalized economy.

Although the American imperial is the only major customary system in use today, since all the other nations converted to metric, the American imperial is the new English pint.

tooki:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on November 06, 2019, 08:14:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on November 06, 2019, 07:47:20 pm ---The only place where citizens gave a crap was miles. But it’s absurd to think that people care about anything else. Consumers don’t care what fasteners their car uses. They don’t care whether a large beer is 16oz or 500ml. They don’t care whether the IV line they get in the hospital is 1m or 3 feet long. They don’t care whether their phone is 5” tall or 12cm.

Now, mechanics and others in the industry care. But nobody else does.

As long as products are fit for purpose and work with the items they need to, people don’t care. Almost nobody has some kind of emotional connection to the units used.

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Cool! Since no one cares, change to metric and bury this imperial rubbish deep down in the ground.

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Tons of stuff has switched, and tons more will. Some things likely never will, and I’ve explained the reasons for NOT switching multiple times, just scroll up and read.

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: tooki on November 06, 2019, 11:00:27 pm ---Tons of stuff has switched, and tons more will. Some things likely never will, and I’ve explained the reasons for NOT switching multiple times, just scroll up and read.

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Oh, well. The US are hopeless. What comforts me is that in a parallel universe the world adopted imperial and the US metric. And now the parallel US are pissed because the imperial volt, ohm, watt, joule, farad, henry, and all other units used in electronics are defined by imperial, and they have odd conversion rates, so when people travel abroad they don't have the slightest idea how 3000, 4000 or 5000 imperial volts translate to the metric volt and have to resort to calculators or rules of thumb to know it.

V = kg m²/A s³ = 2.2lb · (3.28)²ft² / A s³
Ω = kg m²/s³A² = 2.2lb · (3.28)²ft² / s³A²
W = kg m²/s³ = 2.2lb · (3.28)²ft² / s³
J = kg m²/s² = 2.2lb · (3.28)²ft² / s²
F = s⁴A²/ kg m² = s⁴A² / 2.2lb · (3.28)²ft²
H = kg m² /s²A² = 2.2lb · (3.28)²ft² / s²A²

2.2lb · (3.28)²ft² approx. 23.7 lb · ft²

1 V = 23.7 iV
1 Ω = 23.7 iΩ
1 W = 23.7 iW
1 J = 23.7 iJ
1 F = 0.0422 iF
1 H = 23.7 iH

Let's admit it: imperial is RE-TAR-DED (and probably contagious).

soldar:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on November 06, 2019, 09:28:26 pm ---Although the American imperial is the only major customary system in use today, since all the other nations converted to metric, the American imperial is the new English pint.

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I believe it is not called American Imperial but American Customary.

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