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   Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦 (savvyhomestead@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 22:04:30 JST Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦

   The metric system is way more efficient, understandable and logical than the imperial system.
   In the meantime we are stuck with an ancient system so to make the best of it here's some shortcuts for temperature conversion:

   https://blog.prepscholar.com/convert-celsius-to-fahrenheit

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 22:04:28 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @Tweetfiction @Savvyhomestead In ordinary life tasks, I kinda am split on which one I prefer. I bake bread by metric because it's easier to scale. I prefer most cooking by imperial (if I even measure at all) because it means fewer measuring tools, faster measurement, and a more intuitive flow to the cooking.

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     It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸 (tweetfiction@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 22:04:29 JST It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸

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     @Savvyhomestead Metric is superior for almost everything but Fahrenheit is a better measure of human comfort level. Fite me.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:06:00 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @gdinwiddie @Tweetfiction @Savvyhomestead Really, the computers in our heads do all their arithmetic algorithms based on base 10. The advantage of base 2 is it's easier to make logic gates for it. But imperial also uses base 10. You can talk about "10 cups" and it's no problem. It just has the option to change units of measure in places other than the base. Metric's quite fine and lets you do plenty; imperial's just not as bad as it's made out to be.

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     George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:06:01 JST George Dinwiddie

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     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction @Savvyhomestead
     I find it funny that people whose work involves programming computers extol the metric system for all uses. It's like they forget that their computers are based on powers of 2 instead of 10.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:54:40 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @gdinwiddie @Tweetfiction @Savvyhomestead I'm a low-level systems engineer so I spend my day hopping around between decimal, binary, and hex. I agree with you that, if things were different, they'd be different, but it's also rather beside the point, and the point is that both metric and imperial use the same numeric base already.

     And I do agree that many imperial measures allow for pleasant rapid conversion and approximation in many practical situations.

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     George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 01:54:41 JST George Dinwiddie

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     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction @Savvyhomestead
     You're only thinking in base 10 because you do so much with arabic numerals. Working with other bases gives you other insights.

     I find metric measures convenient for chemistry, but for many other things, other measures make calculations easier. Often imperial measurements let you do important transformations without the need to focus on numbers.

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     George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:36:33 JST George Dinwiddie

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     @roadriverrail @Tweetfiction @Savvyhomestead
     The use of Base 10 numbers in European culture predates both imperial and metric measurements. But imperial measurements are designed such that some calculations are easier than they are in metric. A third of a foot is simpler to calculate than a third of a meter, for example. And a third of a Tablespoon is simply a teaspoon.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2023 02:36:33 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • George Dinwiddie
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     @gdinwiddie @Tweetfiction @Savvyhomestead Yes, this is what I've been saying (though, sidebar, an Australian tablespoon is 4 Australian teaspoons). Measurement systems are mostly about the practical solutions they offer and the ability to communicate scale among parties. Of course, there are also deeper questions to ask...if it's great that a tablespoon is 3 teaspoons, why are we optimizing for taking 1/3 there? One finds a treasure trove of practical history this way.