Why are Americans still using the old imperial unit system?
07-29-2008, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by i<3e60' post='635039' date='Jul 29 2008, 08:33 AM
as well as the ones ive been trying to make 
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ok im tired of arguing about measurements, school gives me enough of that, i go on the internet to get away from it, you believe what you want, i believe what i want, i just think that accuracy doesnt necessarily have to mean "free from error" and can also mean less prone to error, which in fact is true in smaller increments of measurment.
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Originally Posted by i<3e60' post='635055' date='Jul 29 2008, 08:49 AM
ok im tired of arguing about measurements, school gives me enough of that, i go on the internet to get away from it, you believe what you want, i believe what i want, i just think that accuracy doesnt necessarily have to mean "free from error" and can also mean less prone to error, which in fact is true in smaller increments of measurment.
07-29-2008, 09:11 AM
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Great, it's resolved. i<3e60 is going to use his own made up definition of the word "accurate" to support his position, and swajames will acknowledge that metric is easier to use, but not more accurate using the generally accepted international definition of the term.
we can all hug now.
we can all hug now.
07-29-2008, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by 1esquire' post='635168' date='Jul 29 2008, 08:11 PM
Great, it's resolved. i<3e60 is going to use his own made up definition of the word "accurate" to support his position, and swajames will acknowledge that metric is easier to use, but not more accurate using the generally accepted international definition of the term.
we can all hug now.
we can all hug now.
It's not a matter of hugging or not, and you can argue semantics as long as you want. Truth be told as i pointed earlier, mathematically speaking Xmm is more accurate than Y.Z(U)inches. Period! Please give a proper mathematical argument against this.Maybe i may be wrong, maybe my math is rusty but i remember period numbers (eg. 1.23432(2) ) being numbers with infinite decimals. Infinity is no where near accurate! Can you pin point infinity?
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Originally Posted by BetterMakeWay' post='635405' date='Jul 29 2008, 04:45 PM
Infinity is no where near accurate! Can you pin point infinity?
I understand your point that 3 of something is more "accurate" than 2.9999 repeating of something, but only if it repeats to infinity, which not every decimal does. Afterall, 250 mm is .0250 meters, right (or some decimal variation there of)? so, the fact that there is something to the right of a decimal point does not indicate a lack of accuracy.
In addition, the decimals only really come up when you are converting from one to the other using some standard. If I take a measurement with a ruler, I am not going to say it is 2.999 repeating.
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Originally Posted by BetterMakeWay' post='635405' date='Jul 29 2008, 01:45 PM
NO! It's not a matter of hugging or not, and you can argue semantics as long as you want. Truth be told as i pointed earlier, mathematically speaking Xmm is more accurate than Y.Z(U)inches. Period! Please give a proper mathematical argument against this.
It's not a matter of hugging or not, and you can argue semantics as long as you want. Truth be told as i pointed earlier, mathematically speaking Xmm is more accurate than Y.Z(U)inches. Period! Please give a proper mathematical argument against this.When describing a constant measurement, is 1 inch any more or any less accurate than 25.4 millimeters? Or 0.0254 meters? Or 2.54?10[sup]-5[/sup] kilometers?
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Originally Posted by CWS530' post='634247' date='Jul 28 2008, 10:09 AM
I'm 25.4 mm from feeling the same way. No, make that 2.54 cm. 