American Forumers - Metric or Imperial?

[SBG]

Imperial doesn't even make sense.

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[HellHound]

I usually use imperial in general conversation but I like to try to use metric as much as possible mentally. Re-learning a set of measurements is really hard.

[Space1255]

I've grown familiar with Imperial, but I wish I learned Metric.

[Otis Da HousKat]

I think 72 inches sounds nicer than 182.88(183) cm, but I find myself using metric more often for mass and volume measurements in my day to day life.

[ThatDarkNinja778]

Imperial is good for practical common use like its easier to say someone is 5 feet tall and understand it than 1.52 meters or 152 centimeters tall. Metric is better for everything else though because its base 10 and makes a whole lot more sense when doing measurements or something.

[shitlord]

as an american idk why we have to use a different system

[Otis Da HousKat]

I think 72 inches sounds nicer than 182.88(183) cm, but I find myself using metric more often for mass and volume measurements in my day to day life.

For this post I was referencing my height, 6 feet 2 inches, and accidentally thought that was 72 inches when it should be 74 and a corresponding 187.96(188) cm. I guess this is a good reason to use metric over imperial for measurements...

[Nonnel]

Imperial for common use, metric when the numbers actually matter (I.e. measurements).

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I'm gonna measure miles in miles and feet in feet but scientists and mathematicians can do whatever the hell they want

[ZombiLoin]

Metric because it's easier to do base 10 math.

[Red Spy]

Base 10 is way simpler than base whatevertheforgetitis

[ßlöükfáce]

metric is way easier but imperial is what murica uses so i go with that

[Otis Da HousKat]

And if anyone else here is a swimmer I'm sure you can understand the frustration of dealing with, "Is this a 25 yard or 25 meter pool?"

So you know what forget Imperial all it does is make my life harder.

[Kochieboy]

"Is this a 25 yard or 25 meter pool?"

You have no idea how much this pisses me off

[Ravencroft·]

It's a pain in the richard converting back and forth in engineering courses so definitely metric.

[XR-7]

I prefer Imperial for commonplace measurements under most circumstances, but I prefer metric for scientific purposes as well as more precise measurements, since I'd rather just measure in millimeters rather than think about and say that such and such is 1/16"