🧵 Wtf
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 07:45:26 UTC No. 16187466
Why do Americans use centimeters and millimeters but not meters and kilometers?
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 08:06:26 UTC No. 16187488
>>16187466
As an American, I've very rarely seen another American use centimeters or millimeters outside of school settings, except in the context of a part that was fabricated to metric standards. So I'd say your question is based on a false premise.
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 08:08:34 UTC No. 16187491
>>16187488
So wtf do they use thats smaller than an inch?
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 08:10:15 UTC No. 16187493
>>16187488
You're either trolling or retarded. When tf has anyone used a thou?
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 08:15:52 UTC No. 16187499
>>16187466
Americans are gonna be retarded. But the biggest retardism happens when non-Americans start using fucking inches and feet just because they speak English. How cucked can you be?
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 08:19:46 UTC No. 16187501
>>16187493
1/16th of an inch is way more common than 1.5 mm in engineering and construction
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 09:14:21 UTC No. 16187528
>>16187488
>centimeters or millimeters outside of school settings
You are unemployed now and have never had a manual labor drive, so that makes sense.
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 17:54:04 UTC No. 16188219
>>16187491
Typically fractions down to 1/64. Beyond that decimals. But in normal civilian use, there's not much that's measured at that small size and at that precision. For most things scientific and medical, metric units are used.
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 18:03:52 UTC No. 16188231
>>16187491
Fractions of an inch.
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 18:05:29 UTC No. 16188232
>>16187466
Because the typical American only works with small time equipment and tools. So only the small units of the metric system would be understood. The typical American isn't designing roads and skyscrapers. American engineers do and they know the metric system better than the imperial
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 18:06:34 UTC No. 16188233
>>16187506
>suspiciously accurate
You meant to say "suspiciously precise." Accuracy is the degree of correctness in a measurement, while precision is the degree of resolution to the measurement.
9.5mm and 9.54mm would both be accurate measurements but 9.54mm is more precise to a likely needless degree.
Anonymous at Wed, 22 May 2024 18:20:24 UTC No. 16188248
>>16187466
Kilometers are too short to be a good measurement when driving at highway speeds. As usual, the imperial system provides a nice 0-100 scale of usable numbers where 100 mph is easily recognizable as a dangerously fast upper limit while that same speed would be a much more arbitrary-feeling 160 kph that doesn't align with the natural human tendency to quantify things on a scale of 0-100.
The same thing happens with fahrenheit and celsius. 0 fahrenheit is dangerously cold weather for humans and 100 fahrenheit is dangerously hot for humans. The closer you get to 0 or 100 the more you know you'll need to prepare for it, and exceeding those limits (cold below 0 or heat above 100) is relatively rare and known to be extreme. Meanwhile, the 0-100 fahrenheit scale translates to a ridiculous -18 to 38 scale that's completely unintuitive to humans who, again, tend to think in scales of 10 or 100.