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   egirlyuumimain (egirlyuumimain@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 15:18:35 JST egirlyuumimain

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   @VD15 Rather use this than whatever metric has
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 15:18:34 JST 翠星石

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     @egirlyuumimain @VD15 All of those units are defined based off a metric unit - so using those units is using metric with extra steps - you should just use metric directly.
     
     See GNU units output;
     You have: pint
     You want:
     Definition: 1|2 quart = 0.00047317647 m^3
     You have: quart
     You want:
     Definition: 1|4 gallon = 0.00094635295 m^3
     You have: cup
     You want:
     Definition: uscup = 8 usfloz = 0.00023658824 m^3
     You have: teaspoon
     You want:
     Definition: usteaspoon = 1|3 ustablespoon = 4.9289216e-06 m^3
     You have: tablespoon
     You want:
     Definition: ustablespoon = 1|16 uscup = 1.4786765e-05 m^3
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     Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 15:20:28 JST Anime Wong

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     @egirlyuumimain @VD15 Could you imagine metric measuring cups?
     
     "No we put everything in a scale and weigh it."
     
     Yeah, I'll stick to my eastern mysticism alchemical portion tables.
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     @Elliptica @VD15 @egirlyuumimain >Could you imagine metric measuring cups?
     Yes, the cup has a mL scale and you just add however many mL of liquid the recipe calls for.
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     Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 00:36:08 JST Anime Wong

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     @Suiseiseki @VD15 @egirlyuumimain Yeah, of course, but 1 ts, 1 tbs, 1 cup are nicer to work with than 4.9ml, 14.8ml, 236.6ml. Even if I round it to 5, 15, 240, (or maybe 10, 30, 250, idk) it's easier to divide and multiply stuff when your starting unit is increments of 1. This is the reason why even scientists make up goofy units like Barns and Outhouses, Angstroms, Jansky. Basically establishing a scale that works within the context of their field. The primary advantage with metric imo are unit conversions, and despite the chart I don't think people regularly do that unless they are in some sort of pinch.
     
     But my whole joke was really that incremental metric measuring cups would be silly.
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     @Elliptica @VD15 @egirlyuumimain >1 ts, 1 tbs, 1 cup are nicer to work with than 4.9ml, 14.8ml, 236.6ml.
     Then don't do that?
     
     You clearly can easily work with 5mL, 10mL, 15mL, 20mL, 100mL, 200mL and 240mL, adjusting as needed - as you can easily wack on or off 5mL or 10mL or 100mL or 50mL or 1mL as needed, or half the value, meanwhile you cannot do the same when working with tablespoons or cups and end up degenerating into stuff like ⅛ cup.
     
     >it's easier to divide and multiply stuff when your starting unit is increments of 1
     It's easier to divide and multiple stuff when you can trivially arrive at exact values instead of endlessly undershooting and overshooting.
     
     >Basically establishing a scale that works within the context of their field.
     mL works perfectly fine for the field whether you round to 25mL or 1mL.
     
     Cups and tablespoons are more complicated and much easier to get wrong than mL (add 100mL of milk vs add 1 cup and 6 tablespoons of milk).
     
     >incremental metric measuring cups would be silly.
     Such cups have never been made.