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Date of upload: Apr 30, 2024 ^^
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Weird video. I don't think anybody argues that the choice of whatever basic unit you use us ultimately arbitrary. The advantage of the metric system is that once you've chosen that unit, the rest builds on that basic unit in a systematic way. Using metrics that don't neatly build on each other makes life unnecessarily difficult and leads to unnecessary imprecision. When doing renovation projects in the US, our contractors have been half-assing measurements because ultimately stuff never stacks up if you have to work with feet, inches and fraction of inches. I've never seen that in Europe.
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The old measurement errors propagating in SI units isn't an oversight or an error, it's a feature specifically chosen to exist. All the newer definitions fit inside the error bars of the old ones. That makes them backwards compatible. Technically they aren't actually different, they are simply more precise.
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What is stupid about the imperial system is not the size of the unit, it is the weakness of the conversion systems.
The metric system has been adopted by all but three countries in the world because it is based on decimal and the ratio of 10 between larger or smaller units.
It's so much simpler...
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The important thing with the metric system is : whatever arbitrary reference was taken to define the basic unit (meter / mètre), ALL the other units would be defined as decimal variations of the base, so it makes calculations extremely easy even between different fields of measure (volumes to distance, or weight), and much less error prone than conversions even within the Imperial system ;)
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@DerGegenDenWindPinkelt
3 weeks ago
For Europeans, the American system makes no sense at all and is just too grotesque unnecessarily complicated.
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