View Poll Results: Imperial or Metric
Imperial
41
59.42%
Metric
18
26.09%
Units...I don't need no stinkin' units
10
14.49%
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POLL for Americans...What kind of units do you use?
02-23-21, 03:59 PM
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in my view units are best if they are useful. Like miles are useful because that’s an amount that feels right. Like a foot if you are doing house construction or an inch for finish carpenters. Early into the metric conversion the roads signs would say like 29.387 km. Nonsense!
An inch is a terrible base unit for finish carpentry, because just about every cut you make will be to some unpredictable precision between 1/16 and 5/64. Cutting to millimetres will be consistent, a good approximation of the width of your saw-cut, and get you to within a tolerance than can be fine-tuned with sandpaper.
02-23-21, 04:05 PM
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Like most here, when it comes to tools usually metric. But speed, distance, and temperature all imperial.
But I will ask an even stranger question... does anyone else here use 24 hour time? Am I the only one who finds it easier to use than 12 hour AM/PM time? There are 24 hours in a day, not 12. Why can't we all switch over to 24 hour time?
But I will ask an even stranger question... does anyone else here use 24 hour time? Am I the only one who finds it easier to use than 12 hour AM/PM time? There are 24 hours in a day, not 12. Why can't we all switch over to 24 hour time?
