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What are the benefits?
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Not being Rebel scum.
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Who uses imperial?
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12 is an easier number to work with than 10 in terms of finding common factors, such as 2, 3, and 4. Math would be a lot easier in general if we used base 12 instead of base 10, but that's not likely to change ever.

Annihilated posted...

12 is an easier number to work with than 10 in terms of finding common factors, such as 2, 3, and 4. Math would be a lot easier in general if we used base 12 instead of base 10, but that's not likely to change ever.

it's not all base 12 though
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You feel like less of a fat fuck, but your dick is smaller.
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Fahrenheit is actually a good gauge of comfort if not precise temperature. As was mentioned, 12 is a great number to work with. Quarts and pints are just fine to work with. No problems with pounds either as long as you recognize them as a standard unit.
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More relatable units instead of units designed to be replicable using scientific constants, creating units that are awkward at a human scale

There are practically no benefits I can think of.
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Joelypoely posted...

There are practically no benefits I can think of.

Well that's because you can't think

If you ever travel to Liberia you will not be confused by the way they measure things.

Ryangrad posted...

Who uses imperial?

Burma, Liberia and the US
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

More relatable units instead of units designed to be replicable using scientific constants, creating units that are awkward at a human scale

they're not more relatable, or awkward at the human scale
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averagejoel posted...

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

More relatable units instead of units designed to be replicable using scientific constants, creating units that are awkward at a human scale

they're not more relatable, or awkward at the human scale

An inch is the width of a thumb

A foot is self explanatory

A yard is an armspan

A mile is a thousand paces

Teaspoons and tablespoons

0-100 Fahrenheit represents about as hot and cold as it gets in a temperate environment

Meanwhile...

A metre is one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole

A gram is the weight of a cubic centimeter of water at sea level

0-100 Celsius is the freezing and boiling points of water, where more than half of that temperature range is never experienced in our planet's weather and a significant portion of it goes into the negatives on a regular basis in winter.

YoshitoKikuchi posted...

What are the benefits?

You get to live in the ignorance that "learning new shit is too hard."
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No benefits unless your Murcan and you need to convince everyone your penor isn't tiny.

The real world isn't stuck in the past and uses metric.
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Weezy_Tha_Don posted...

Ryangrad posted...

Who uses imperial?

Burma, Liberia and the US

America uses US Customary.
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

An inch is the width of a thumb

A foot is self explanatory

A yard is an armspan

A mile is a thousand paces

Teaspoons and tablespoons

0-100 Fahrenheit represents about as hot and cold as it gets in a temperate environment

whose thumb? whose foot? whose armspan? whose paces, under what circumstances?

if you're accustomed to metric, there are similar everyday objects that you can use for reference, with the added advantage that you're not using an archaic system
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

averagejoel posted...

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

More relatable units instead of units designed to be replicable using scientific constants, creating units that are awkward at a human scale

they're not more relatable, or awkward at the human scale

An inch is the width of a thumb

A foot is self explanatory

A yard is an armspan

A mile is a thousand paces

Teaspoons and tablespoons

0-100 Fahrenheit represents about as hot and cold as it gets in a temperate environment

Meanwhile...

A metre is one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole

A gram is the weight of a cubic centimeter of water at sea level

0-100 Celsius is the freezing and boiling points of water, where more than half of that temperature range is never experienced in our planet's weather and a significant portion of it goes into the negatives on a regular basis in winter.

I mean, you learn a centimeter and you easily translate that knwoledge to meters or kilometers, how do you transform a yard to inches or a mile without a formula, it add sunnecesary steps.
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the benefits also include not having news about how your kids cannot tell the time in an analogue clock :P
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averagejoel posted...

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

An inch is the width of a thumb

A foot is self explanatory

A yard is an armspan

A mile is a thousand paces

Teaspoons and tablespoons

0-100 Fahrenheit represents about as hot and cold as it gets in a temperate environment

whose thumb? whose foot? whose armspan? whose paces, under what circumstances?

if you're accustomed to metric, there are similar everyday objects that you can use for reference, with the added advantage that you're not using an archaic system

It doesn't actually matter whose foot/thumb because you're just using quick reference.

Base 10 > Base 12
Fahrenheit >>> Celsius
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

averagejoel posted...

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

An inch is the width of a thumb

A foot is self explanatory

A yard is an armspan

A mile is a thousand paces

Teaspoons and tablespoons

0-100 Fahrenheit represents about as hot and cold as it gets in a temperate environment

whose thumb? whose foot? whose armspan? whose paces, under what circumstances?

if you're accustomed to metric, there are similar everyday objects that you can use for reference, with the added advantage that you're not using an archaic system

It doesn't actually matter whose foot/thumb because you're just using quick reference.

ok. similar quick references exist for metric.
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voldothegr8 posted...

Base 10 > Base 12
Fahrenheit >>> Celsius

Hmm
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Fahrenheit > Celsius
Gallons > Liters
There is no equivalent of feet used normally in the metric system, and feet are way more useful than yards/meters
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Imperial was designed to be more intuitive. A foot is roughly the length of a man's foot. 100% Fahrenheit is "100% hot" and 0% Fahrenheit "0% hot" to the human body. It's a janky, inconsistent system, but it was built from measurements born from the idea of mapping abstract concepts to intuitive measures. Absent measuring tools, you can pretty accurately fake most things in imperial just using your own body.

That doesn't justify our continued use of it, but if I really had to pick something and call it a benefit, it would be that.
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RoboLaserGandhi posted...

It doesn't actually matter whose foot/thumb because you're just using quick reference.

then why baby foot and adult foot different shoe size? ehhh murican?
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These arguments always boil down to "it's unfamiliar, therefore it's inferior". People that grew up with metric can just as easily use those units for visualizing sizes, capacities and temperatures as people who grew up in the US can with imperial/customary units.

Base 12 for measurement has a lot of use in construction and manufacturing.

also base 10 isn't the standard for everything. Time has been base 60 for centuries
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treewojima posted...

These arguments always boil down to "it's unfamiliar, therefore it's inferior". People that grew up with metric can just as easily use those units for visualizing sizes, capacities and temperatures as people who grew up in the US can with imperial/customary units.

Nobody here is saying it's inferior, but you can't argue that an imperial foot is harder to visualize and/or harder to estimate than 30 centimeters. It's objectively less abstract as a concept.
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A mile is 5280 feet. Nobody I know is making that in 1000 paces. You lunge everywhere you walk, mate? Gtfoh with your 5foot pace
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I love the "hurrrrr you can translate between units easier!" People who need to do that for a profession already know how to and nobody else needs to. If you measure something and it's 2'3" long, what benefit is there to knowing what portion of a mile that is? Even if you DID want to know, everyone has a freaking computer in their pocket these days. It's not a problem. People that need to know these sorts of things already do. A baker knows how many ounces are in a cup. If I need to add 1'7 5/16" plus 11 3/8", I know that's 11 6/16", 11/16", 2'6 11/16". Simple. Most people DON'T need to know that, so making it simpler has.... no real benefit.

Attacking Americans because we're better at practical math than other countries is silly.
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ZMythos posted...

Base 12 for measurement has a lot of use in construction and manufacturing.

also base 10 isn't the standard for everything. Time has been base 60 for centuries

imperial isn't base 12 (1 yard is not 12 feet; 1 mile is not 12 or 144 yards, etc.) it's irregular.

time is not base 60 either (1 day is not 60 hours, etc). it's also irregular
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