Do Americans find metric too difficult?

[Winco]

I got ten bucks says you're wrong.

Why is a system that uses 1/2 :

in feet and get 6 inches
in yards and gets 18 inches
in pounds gets 8 ounces
in miles gets 2640 feet

This is better than 1/2 just being 1/2.

Meters (liters or grams) that uses 1/2 gets:

500 mm
50cm

Pretty sure that 1/2 ALWAYS being 0.5
rather than 1/2 sometimes being 6, 18, 8 or 2640.

 

[Concerned American]

Why is a system that uses 1/2 :

in feet and get 6 inches
in yards and gets 18 inches
in pounds gets 8 ounces
in miles gets 2640 feet

This is better than 1/2 just being 1/2.

Meters (liters or grams) that uses 1/2 gets:

500 mm
50cm

Pretty sure that 1/2 ALWAYS being 0.5
rather than 1/2 sometimes being 6, 18, 8 or 2640.

So in addition to not being able to read, you are mathematically challenged too, eh, Winnie? Why does everything have to be based on 10--are you unable to think any deeper?

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Do Americans find metric too difficult?​

Metric system is just a dumbed down system so everyone can use it...anyone who finds it too difficult to learn most certainly cannot learn the English system...
...besides that, the english system has an alternate purpose, being one of only a few nations to use the english system it makes espionage [both military and corporate] against us more than twice as expensive and in some cases impossible.

on a lighter note do you think/believe math was invented or discovered?

 

[Concerned American]

Metric system is just a dumbed down system so everyone can use it...anyone who finds it too difficult to learn most certainly cannot learn the English system...
...besides the english system has an alternate purpose, being one of only a few nations to use the english system it makes espionage against us more than twice as expensive and in some cases impossible.

on a lighter note do you think/believe math was invented or discovered?

Discovered. The biggest discovery in mathematics was the zero.

 

[Winco]

So in addition to not being able to read, you are mathematically challenged too, eh, Winnie? Why does everything have to be based on 10--are you unable to think any deeper?

Your attempts at put downs is a huge failure

Metric is easier
I can easily do both.

Quickly
What number is halfway in between 1/7 and 1/9 ?

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Discovered.

which would make the metric system a knock off/imitation since it wasn't around at the time of discovery

 

[Concerned American]

Metric is easier

You're lazy. In answer to your irrelevant question--when have you ever heard of those fractions used in the English system--you know the one you were complaining about.

 

[Winco]

You're lazy. In answer to your irrelevant question--when have you ever heard of those fractions used in the English system--you know the one you were complaining about.

You can’t solve basic fractions
Got it

It’s 8/63

 

[Winco]

You're lazy. In answer to your irrelevant question--when have you ever heard of those fractions used in the English system--you know the one you were complaining about.

I accept your defeat

It’s not really that difficult
All you have to do is add 7 to 9
Get 16
Put that 16 in a fraction over 63

Giving you 16/63, then take half of that to find the average

To take half of 16/63, since the top number is even, simply take half and get 8

Therefore 8/63.

Now that I taught you, maybe the big boy can do one without my help.

 

[Concerned American]

You can’t solve basic fractions
Got it

It’s 8/63

No shit. I'm surprised you took so long. Now what is the decimal equivalent of 8/63. LMAO.

 

[Concerned American]

I accept your defeat

It’s not really that difficult
All you have to do is add 7 to 9
Get 16
Put that 16 in a fraction over 63

Giving you 16/63, then take half of that to find the average

To take half of 16/63, since the top number is even, simply take half and get 8

Therefore 8/63.

Now that I taught you, maybe the big boy can do one without my help.

Or you could multiply 7 x 9 to obtain the common denominator and multiply 1 x 7 and 1 x 9 to obtain the numerators giving you 9/63 and 7/63--half of that is 8/63. Gee you are capable of doing third grade math--Now maybe you can bring yourself to do something useful. By the way, genius, 8/63 is not a number--it is a fraction of a number. Now answer my question--quick. What is the decimal equivalent of 8/63? Lets see if you're capable of 4th grade math.

 

[petro]

Back when they were pounding it in the '70's we were taught both in school.
Working on my vehicle or toys requires tools for both standard and metric.
But my job as a carpenter, standard IS the standard. All lumber products even from Canada are on standard measures.
Works great because an 8ft sheet of anything will work with a 12, 16, 19 1/4 and 24 inch layout for truss members.
Fractions come quick and easy and are still easy to convert to decimal.

 

[Winco]

No shit. I'm surprised you took so long. Now what is the decimal equivalent of 8/63. LMAO.

Or you could multiply 7 x 9 to obtain the common denominator and multiply 1 x 7 and 1 x 9 to obtain the numerators giving you 9/63 and 7/63--half of that is 8/63. Gee you are capable of doing third grade math--Now maybe you can bring yourself to do something useful. By the way, genius, 8/63 is not a number--it is a fraction of a number. Now answer my question--quick. What is the decimal equivalent of 8/63? Lets see if you're capable of 4th grade math.

Good job
You just described common core
You showed an alternative way to solve the same problem

You supported common core without even knowing

The decimal equivalent is a rational number. Hence the word number.
A non-terminating decimal
Nice try saying a fraction isn’t a number

Fractions are rational numbers
Your simple numbers are
Whole numbers
Natural numbers
Or Integers.

 

[Leo123]

One or the other. I hate converting.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

In machining, SAE/imperial is much better than metric.

Imperial gears are much easier to engineer and cut than Metric which has completely different formulas.
And that's just for involute gears...not cycloidal.

Same thing with thread cutting.

I can't do the conversions in my head...I don't even want to try either.

As a retired machinist I totally agree.
When the economy went to shit in the 80's and the oil industry took a major hit I took a job at a hydraulic shop out of desperation.
It was opened by a german dude who thought the metric system was the way to go. He bought a lathe that was set up for metric use.
I told the guy I dont have metric tools and if he wanted to use metric you need to convert the prints to SAE standard.
He then told me I need to buy new measuring tools. I laughed in his face and told him I have thousands of dollars in inspection equipment and I sure as hell wont be buying metric mics and metric calipers since they would be useless in any shop in Texas or for that matter anywhere in America.
He fired me and I laughed as I walked out the door......it wasnt a month later that the place closed the doors.

 

[toobfreak]

Metric is a far superior system.

Really Teach? We sent a man to the Moon and back using good ol' feet and miles with slide rules and computers less powerful than a Radio Shack calculator. It all just depends on what you're used to using. But Boeing switched from fueling their jets from gallons to liters causing a technician to get confused and the jet ran out of fuel over the ocean and 250 people died.

Never happened until they went metric.

 

[toobfreak]

Do you, or can you use metric?

Sure. I used whatever is easier or works best at the minute. It is so easy to convert between the two.

You can convert any length measurement between imperial and metric with the simple conversion factor: 25.4.

If you want to work in meters, use 39.37.

Those are the two most often needed.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I got my degrees in Engineering back when Jimmy Cater tried to force metric on us.

I am comfortable using both but I prefer Imperial. For measurements base 8 is more dividable than base 10. I like miles rather than kiolometers. Gallons more than Litres.

Besides, I am 'merican so I don't like soccer or metric. I am not a commie.

It's miles in the UK

 

[Captain Caveman]

In America we mostly do NOT use metric because FUCK EUROPE.

Metric and imperial are world wide, both used in all countries

 

[Captain Caveman]

I got my degrees in Engineering back when Jimmy Cater tried to force metric on us.

I am comfortable using both but I prefer Imperial. For measurements base 8 is more dividable than base 10. I like miles rather than kiolometers. Gallons more than Litres.

Besides, I am 'merican so I don't like soccer or metric. I am not a commie.

I don't follow soccer (football because it involves a foot and a ball) either