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i roll my eyes so hard at Americans who dont/cant understand metric, it's literally orders of magnitude, it's simple math, whereas they are partial to make believe units that dont mean anything. Literally made up ridiculous units, such as barley corns and hands, fingers, ells, shackles, inches, furlongs, like what in the honest fu

Didn't Myanmar have their own measuring system?

From Wikipedia: The traditional Burmese units of measurement were a system of measurement used in Myanmar (also known as Burma). According to the 2010 CIA Factbook, Myanmar is one of three countries that have not adopted the International System of Units (SI) metric system as their official system of weights and measures.[1] However, in June 2011, the Burmese government's Ministry of Commerce began discussing proposals to reform the measurement system in Burma and adopt the metric system used by most of its trading partners,[2] and in October 2013, Pwint San, Deputy Minister for Commerce, announced that the country was preparing to adopt the metric system.[3] Burmese government web pages in English use imperial and metric units inconsistently. For instance, the Ministry of Construction uses miles to describe the length of roads[4] and square feet for the size of houses,[5] but square kilometres for the total land area of new town developments in Yangon City.[5] The Ministry of Agriculture uses acres for land areas.[6] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs uses kilometres (with mile equivalents in parentheses) to describe the dimensions of the country.[7]

The UK mixes units of measure.

Even the US is using metric albeit in a somewhat hidden way. All imperial units are defined in metric units. It gives those who love "freedom fries" the illusion that they can resist those evil socialist metric units ;)

Same here in Ireland- have imperial and metric. As carpenter- metric way better.

Grey wolf. Agreed the inches vs millimetres thing is stupid it’s inches vs centimetres

@@oscarosullivan4513 Wrong. You don’t order anything in cm in the UK. Only in mm and Metres. Mostly no decimal point unless you’re getting plenty over 10 metres or you are working less accurate and go for example 6.4 Metres.🇬🇧

@@oscarosullivan4513 Not correct. Try to buy a 6mm drill bit... and convert that to inches. Idk the conversion but it might be 1 third of an inch or something like that. I really dont understand the imperial system, but I'm a metric guy for almost 50 years, that's the system thought in school.

@@grumpyone5963 Plenty of things are in centimeters. I buy paper for example 70x100cm.

But also you have to maintain all the extra sets of tools and fasteners and run extra risks of confusion of very similar sizes. Converting to metric would also hopefully entail phasing out all formerly known as British fasteners and switching to DIN/ISO standard ones instead.

Fun fact, every single imperial unit is defined by a metric equivalent. So even when we use imperial, we actually are using metric

@@SianaGearz or just completely switch to metric, then you only have one set you commonly use. Then have some back room that contains all of your unused imperial stuff just in case you need it. A lot of things in a workshop you need to replace over time anyway, especially things like drill bits, taps, etc. Also bolts and fasteners are consumables, so when you run out or break them you could just buy metric to replace them unless you absolutely need imperial.

@@SianaGearz I mean as stated in the video, the US govt actually considered the question and had a panel of experts give advice in the 70's, and they concluded that the metric system was not only better, but sufficiently better that it was worth switching over to it. The US is officially a metric system country, at least on paper, however Reagan defunded the org that was supposed to plan for the change so you're stuck with antiquated measurements defined using the metric system.

US has some unofficial mesurements in use on decumentaries so american folk can understand sizes. like... if you want to define a height of a mountain, you have to say how many empire states building on top of eachother. if length of a whale lets say, you have to mesure it with football field. and interestingly, if you want to describe somethings weight , you should use empire states building again. its multipurpose. if you keep using imperial, you gonna need a building or a sport field for normal folk can imagine.

the only way to convince an American: hit the wallet

Sawitzki you could only be Slavic or Serbian Sawić. There is no way for you to be a German.

@@user-hu6yr9ro4q A German engineer of partial Slavic ancestry is easily possible. Any part of Germany east from Elbe river used to be Slavic until early medieval times - way before German engineers shown up on the map of human species.

@@user-hu6yr9ro4q neither Slavik nor Serbian. Born in Germany from German parents. But I must admit that my father was born in Poland, but in a Region where 95% of the population where Germans.

No wonder, as a person with a German surname I am ... a native Pole for at least 4 generations back

Yeah, I felt like he was linning up to tellus jus that, and then for some reason skipped it.

There's also a quote from a book about conversions in metric versus imperial, paraphrasing here: "How much energy does it take to boil cubic liter of water from room temperature, possible to do with metric in imperial the answer is fuck you"

I think I would go with inches. 365" * 236" * 84" cubic inches. Then divide by 231 since I use US Customary gallons and it's defined as 231 cubic inches exactly.

You missed a step though. It has to be in meters to get your answer in liters.

@@CommanderCodey absolutely not, that would be a cubic meter (m³) which are 1000 liters. But in cases like pools no one measures in Liters because one m³ of water ways around a metric ton and the value if needed in liters can just be converted by multiplying

And if it's not water? 1 liter of gasoline does not weigh 1 Kg. Meanwhile, gasoline is the one liquid I measure out the most in my daily life. I gallon weighs 6 pounds. Therefore a full tank (for my car) weighs 72 pounds. That wasn't so hard was it? Seriously, please consider how many times in your daily life to you convert volume to weight with water. Be honest.

@@noelmasson Many things has about the same density as water, because a lot of things consist of water. And the mass/volume conversion is practical when you use it e.g. in baking and other food related activities.

@@laserbuddha You didn't address my point. I "measure" fuel more than water. Most people do. Also 75% of density is not "about the same", any more than 1km is "about the same" as 1 mile. 1 gallon weighing 6 pounds is a relationship, and it's not hard to remember. Certainly no harder than remembering the difference in order of magnitude between nano, pico, hepto, mega and giga for example or that there are 60 seconds in a minute, 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year for that matter.

@@noelmasson Really??? Just read the whole discussion again, starting with op. Just because it's not useful when it comes to gasoline, then it completely useless? Your point is whatever it's, is just weird.

... and it goes on and on. 1 cubic meter of water weighs 1 metric ton (tonne) 1 kilo gram of mass requires a force of 1 Newton to accelerate it at 1 meter per second of velocity every second 1 Newton of force pushing something through 1 meter expends 1 joule of energy 1 Newton of force pushing something at 1 meter per second expends 1 watt of power (1 watt = 1 joule per second 1 Newton meter of torque turning at one radian per second rotation rate expends 1 watt Larger units are in multiples of 1000 (also "centi" occasionally used for 100) which prefix the units nano = 1/1000,000,000,000 pico = 1/1,000,000,000 micro = 1/1,000,000 milli = 1/1,000 kilo = 1,000 mega = 1000,000 giga = 1,000,000,000 tera = 1,000,000,000,000 How many ounces in a stone or stones in a ton, or cubic inches in a gallon again? Oh and is that a US ton (short ton) or an imperial (UK) ton (long ton) and a US gallon or an imperial (UK) gallon? The main argument given in favour of imperial units is that with imperial units it is easier to visualise roughly how much the quantities are. The above shows that that argument is total baloney.

As a person from a metric using country, your neighbour Iceland (we are like 900km away from Scotland), I can tell you that I did not learn a single thing about the imperial system in elementary school, high school or college. I only know that 1 feet is about the length of a Subway sandwich.

What did you actually find stressful about it? I was only taught metric and I failed maths due to shit teachers purposely stopping me from sitting the higher level paper. I can still convert from metric to imperial in my head as it's really simple maths.

We done that in Europe when adopting the Euro... In France, the change rate was "1 € = 6.55957 FF". Not the easiest, isn't it? On the beginning, I was constantly converting - despite that ALL labels were always in BOTH Euros and Francs. I used some tricks, like "15€=100FF" to make it easier, but I was still struggling with big amounts: prices for a car, or worse, a house were simply impossible to evaluate when written in Euros and I needed to convert it back to Francs. Then I started to "accept" prices in Euros, for daily things... A coffee wasn't 2.50FF anymore, but 0.40€ (yeah, they raised all prices a bit, these b*stards...). Same for my bills, and finally my income. And suddenly, all felt into place: a car's price was understandable in Euros, like a house. Because, inconsciously, you estimate these prices according to your income. You may not realize it, but you don't think "This house costs 250.000€", but "This house is 4 years of income"... Then, according to how much (in percentage) you can save monthly, you recalculate this in "This house is 20 years of savings". And NOW, you know if it's affordable for you - or not. For units, it's the same: you do NOT know what a "gallon" is. But you know the WEIGHT of it, you know how much you can carry - let's say 10 gallons max if needed. You can't understand liters because you didn't realized what a liter weights... You don't know "a mile", but you know that you need 15 minutes to travel a mile during rush hours... And around one minute on the freeway. Most of the time, the "hard units" are (small) lengths and weights, meaning feet/inches and pounds for an American, because they are the only ones where you really need a daily evaluation. Kilograms is quite easy: you can round up with "1 kg = 2 pounds" for small weights. And obviously "1 m = 3 ft" and "1 inch = 3 cm". But that's good for tourism. It won't help, but in the very beginning... What you need is to STOP ESTIMATING THINGS. Measure them instead. I'm fully used to metric system, trust me, but I'm very bad at estimating lengths: 10 meters or 20 meters is quite the same for me... And I'm strong enough to simply be unable to distinguish anything between 5 and 20 kilograms. So I measure everything I need to know precisely, from my boys' weight for medication to a room's size for buying furnitures or materials. And once you stop to estimate things constantly and accept the new units, then "magically" you're able to estimate lengths and weights again... If you were really able to estimate them on sight previously, and not constantly put your thumb or your feet close to stuff to "estimate" them.

@@mac_lak You're on the path to enlightenment when you accept the world as it is, rather than try and convert it to your liking. Not just in measuring or currency, but to life in general.

@@mac_lak Same here in Germany though a bit easier with a conversion of 1.95.... Marks to 1 €. The roughly 2:1 made it more intuitively comprehensible though. Interestingly we still have "Pfund" = pound as a weight. Way back in the past- must be 150+ years - depending on where in Germany you went it could be anything between some 400 to some 600 grams. At one point it was then standardised to 500 g or 1/2 kg. This is still sometimes used today epecially in butcher shops.

That's how I deal with imperial measures in Europe - 15" notebook, 24" display, 6" smartphone, 3.5" floppy disk, 2.5" hard drive, 1/2" pipe.

@@sergeykish I really wish they mandated laptop etc. sizes being displayed in mm.

I've got farm machinery in the shed that came out of the factory with imperial and metric bolts.

@@jackhand4073 The Tornado fighter Jet also has Imperial and metric nuts and screws mixed, depending on where the part was manufactured. That's absolutely crazy and dangerous like hell.

@@norbertfleck812 Wow. Scary stuff. Just asking for a mistake. Thanks for the info

Not necessarily. You have to be careful when working on old pre-WW2 metric machinery. If you look in your old reference books you will see there are British, French, German, and Japanese standard metric thread and pitch combinations that are not all the same. Currently there are coarse and fine pitch metric screws and in the smaller sizes the difference may not be obvious with a casual glance. Country of origin can also confuse things. I have an old Taiwanese milling machine that after 30 years of use discovered that it wasn't all metric. About half of the fasteners are British Standard Whitworth.

What about that one: #8-32 coarse threads and #10-32 fine threads? That one is dangerous because the #8 screw will actually fit in the #10 hole and you might even be able to torque it a fair amount leaving no indication that you messed up.... Until the barely engaged threads finally let go during use...

I mean, HSS is great for very soft materials because you can get it INCREDIBLY sharp. But yeah that's about it 😂

@@Birb_of_Judge micrograin carbide can be just as sharp as hss

@@etch3130 maybe, but is it any cheaper at that sharpness?

For small classic lathes it is

@@Birb_of_Judge per kg removed

A British Imperial Gallon is 8 pints of beer. A US Gallon is only 6.6 pints of beer. Glad I'm British if only for the beer.

reading this feels like reading a comedy book

This all reminds me of something one of my American friends (a very senior federal civil servant) once said, although I don't think he originated it... 'You can always rely on the US to do the right thing - but only after they've tried everything else'.

Take the "lbs - pounds" weights from random gyms, weigh them on the same scale and get different results (one's "pound" would be 453 grams, whilst others can we whatever around that number)

The nautical mile is a different beast. It’s based on one minute of latitude, as a navigation tool. So neither metric nor imperial. Still, of course both UK and the US had their own nautical miles long after the rest of the world settled on the standard metric definition of 1852 m in 1929. So for many years there were three different nautical miles. ;-)

Working here in Canada as a construction surveryor in tne 80's was fun...we used decimal feet in surveying, so using metric was a simple shift...but the trades were interesting, the millwrights and machinists both used metric and decimal feet...all of the structural steel tended to be metric....vut, the carpenters refused to use anything but Imperial fractions....I used to have to carry a chart in my fieldbook to convert between the three measures.

Yeah - combining the two is probably the worst of two worlds.

I think all cars have been designed in metric since the 90s (basically since CAD tools) with some exveptions in assembly when using parts with existing "standard"-sized parts

Ford and several other companies have to unify their part bin and platforms between EU, USA and often Japan as well to make use of economies of scale. Half the global Ford vehicles if not more are engineered in Cologne Germany. And in most of these regions, imperial fasteners would not be permissible at all. Like, not like the state forbids it, but the companies really don't want the absolute potential quality assurance hell of mixing tools and fasteners. Indeed it's typical that they'll try to make just about the whole car on one fastener size with just a couple exceptions as needed.

It's interesting that the Americas car companies converted to metric because every non-US supplier used metric. On the other hand, when Airbus came to be they used imperial because most major suppliers were in the states. Also, the US aircraft manufacturers supplied the vast majority of planes even in european fleets so every airline/maintenance shop had imperial tools laying around.

Dude my 1991 Ford Thunderbird is almost all metric fasteners.

In france we use HP or more recently (20 years) kW, i own a BMW and even if specs are in PS, i just approximate 1 PS = 1HP, not a big deal .. and in the end the specs power is never the reality, my 330 is more powerfull in reality then on the paper.. For more technical things, kW is the most accurate and we can easily compare electric to petrol, comrpessed air.. etc

@@davidniquot6423 I wouldn't be surprised if the HP France used, were metric as well. 1PS is the power needed to lift a 75kg weight on earth (g~9,81m/s²) 1m in 1s, which apparently is about as much as a horse could do. An imperial horsepower lifts 550lb 1ft in 1s. Strange that they still couldn't find an alternative time unit to distance themselves further from the metric system ;)

@@SchwachsinnProduzent Time wasn't given the "metric treatment". (they tried though) It was hard to find decent numbers, I think. Of course time already was the same everywhere and had been for a long while. The multiples of 12 give away that it is ancient. Measuring time is a whole different ballgame, though, just like setting the same time (clock) for region or country.

@@SchwachsinnProduzent Time is imperial. 60 minutes 24 hours etc.

@@agt155 No, it's even older than imperial. The 24 h are Egyptian the 60/60 are Babylonian.

Hopefully you can explain something to me that I have often wondered about, but never remembered to ask whenever I was in England. Petrol (gasoline) is sold by the litre and the road sign distances are expressed in miles, but I have never heard anyone talk about the mileage their car achieved in anything other than miles per gallon. Is there some easy mental math conversion for that?

@@samshublom8761 well yeah there will be a calculation for it but we tend to just know how many miles per tank and how many litres are in the tank 🤷‍♂️ Although I just looked on my VW and it has an option for km/L as well as m/g

@@samshublom8761 I only know the long winded way. We have a different gallon as well, to confuse things. 4.5L x £/L and then that's my £/gallon. Its not that straight forward, but i know its roughly £9 a gallon (£2/L) at the moment. I have a 60mpg car, so I know a 20 mile drive is ~£3.

Another Englishman here and I have a habit of sometimes managing to use both at the same time. Saying things like, "I need a bit of 10mm rod, about a foot long"! In general, if it's an approximate measurement I sometimes use imperial but if I need to be precise, it's always metric. Things like building materials still tend to get referred to in imperial, such as sheet material comes in 8'x4'. Well actually it's sold as 2440x1220mm but it's quicker to say 8x4!

@@chrisharden3934 yes very true. We even have some steels delivered that say on the notes 4x1x500mm for example...weird!

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It's very easy m8, just use base of 10. for example, 1 kilometer (km) = 10 hectometers = 100 decameters = 1000 meters (m) = 10000 decimeters (dm) = 100000 centimeters (cm) = 1000000 milimeters (mm) etc... Or should I write it like this: * Measurements above 1 meter are ---- deca (da) = 10^1 ---- hecto (h) = 10^2 ---- kilo (k) = 10^3 ---- mega (M) = 10^6 ---- giga (G) = 10^9 ---- tera (T) = 10^12 ---- peta (P) = 10^15 ---- exa (E) = 10^18 ---- zeta (Z) = 10^21 ---- yota (Y) = 10^24 * Measurements below 1 meter are ---- deci (d) = 10^-1 ---- centi (c) = 10^-2 ---- mili (m) = 10^-3 ---- micro (u) = 10^-6 ---- nano (n) = 10^-9 ---- pico (p) = 10^-12 ---- femto (f) = 10^-15 ---- ato (a) = 10^-18 ---- zepto (z) = 10^-21 ---- yocto (y) = 10^-24 (sorry if there's some misspelling in the prefixes) *** Same applies to the volume as well, for example 1 liter of water can fill up the space of 100x100x100 milimeters (10x10x10 centimeters or 1x1x1 decimeter or 0.1x0.1x0.1 meter that's why we say like this: 1 liter is equal to 100 cubic milimiters or 10 cubic centimeters or 1 cubic decimeter or 0.1 cubic meter. In 1 cubic meter you can fit 1000 liters of water and so on and so on. One more example, easy one, let's say like this: "yesterday I was traveled 1.45 km, how many meters is that?". Answer is easy, so 10^3, so multiply 1.45 by 1000 and result is 1450 meters, basically just move the "decimal point" sign by 3 places to the right when converting toward smaller units and to the left when converting toward bigger units. Basically, the power of 10 shows you how many places to move the "comma"/"dot"/"decimal point". Anyway, I was raised using metric, but I also use imperial as well, with over 20 years experience in mechanics I can build whatever using both (if I start imperial I finish project using imperial only with no conversions to metric and vice versa).

Which is a cube with an edge length of 1dm, i. e. 1dm^3

Works fantastic with thermal capacity and Joules and Watts.

In kitchen I like to measure liquid volumes with a scale. 1ltr of water = 1kg, and all other liquids are close enough.

Yeah, they still use inches to measure wall height and use square feets to measure a room area.

For someone in construction it is far more intuitive to talk about 8 foot ceilings than 2400mm ceilings. For day to day life imperial still makes a lot of sense, but I still much prefer to use metric, even in construction.

I have to master both. That thing he said about imperial taps didn't make sense. I can do both the same way. Major diameter minus the pitch . 1/4 minus 1/20 =.2

@@davidandjessicaclay2333 dumb comparison and dumb comment in general

@@davidandjessicaclay2333 It's not that imperial makes sense for day to day life, it's that US Americans are accustomed from young age to imperial using it for day to day life. Thus it is harder for them to use metric because they have to learn to use it when they are used already to imperial. You might say that I am just talking semantics, but I like to call out the real reason here. Metric is not taught properly and not used as a prime measurement system, and schools are just brushing over it just to check a mark to say they taught it.

Pretty sure this video was already scripted before they even shot the first video

@@owievisie Very much possible but I just wanted to think that way :D

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in reality the single C grade can be divide into ten parts for example fever start at 37.5C therfore between 0C and 100C can be 1000, 0.01 0.02 0.03 and so on

@@Lorre982 Good point.

...and in sweden it is HK. PS of course means HP.

Yeah, I had to measure my heating pipes for the plumber. Turns out it's a half zoll, but the actual outer diameter is 1 inch. We should just stick to metric.

Same, aircraft maintenance engineer here and we use both metric and imperial.

I feel your pain, but 25.4 is not such a bad number... ...unless you accidentally convert with 24.5. Then everyone is gonna have a bad time.

Why when metric is superior?

@@Davoodoox1 its better to think and do imperial when working with it and the opp applies. Then you not constantly converting.

Fun fact: With the metric scaling system you can even do Mft (megafeet) and mft (millifeet) and kft and so on and so forth. You were basically using dft (decifeet) in that case.

keep both is energy waste. and that make mistake in space because dont know 100% if is mm or inch. Make conversion is wasting time from your life. ok is 1 sec now. but second +second + second can be hours or days just in not solving other problem. Kilogram already is on path in be changed in something more acurate like constant value instead of 3 metals in vacum vault in 3 diferent place.

Few people realise the metric unit of weight is the newton, try converting from kilograms. 1 Newton is 0.10197kg nice just factors of 10, not really.

@@stephenlee5929 Might be a problem for people who don't know the difference between mass and weight and then end up on the moon. The rest of us measure weights in kilograms.

@@rexsceleratorum1632 I agree, that's the point I was trying to make in reply to G Kuljan, most people use pounds for both weight and mass. The issue is the same in both systems.

A calorie is also defined as amount of work needed over x amount of time to heat up y amount of water by 1°C

So easy and logical.

"room temp" is 20C btw, with the original rooms holding the rods being very regulated in temperature (as metal expand with temperature fluctuations)

well, its the other way round, the definition for volume is based on the unit for length - but: they wanted to base the unit for mass on the mass of a cubic meter water at 4°C. they went a different road, to write it down, but 1l Water at 4°C (highest density) has ~1kg (at sea-level) and fits in cube with 10cm side length

Imperial isn't actually based on metric, but it's now defined in metric. Imperial is based on sizes of things (average foot length, for example) which can changed, so they standardised the imperial units based on metric equivalents.

Could also have explain that the imperial measurements reference was lost and and recreate from the metric reference 🤣

I think it wasn't a troll. If you look at the videos, most if not all of them are narrated in inches, the overlay comes in metric though, just as an afterthougth. I find these videos quite interesting but every time they talk about feeds/speeds they use Imperial and have to do the conversions in my head. I am a firm beliver sticking to Imperial is holding american manufacturing back.

I only have issues eyeing the difference in M3 and M4 on a cold start. Of course you can't screw m4 into m3 so you can't mess it up even if you get it wrong the first time.

why would imperial be inherently easier to assess? if you talk about roughly the same range of measurement there wouldn't be a difference. It might be that it is easier to assess for you, but probably only because you are more familiar with it.

When measuring a person's height, the imperial system uses 2 different values mixed together: somebody may be 5 foot and 11 inches while another is 6 foot and 1 inch. I can't tell which one is taller based on those measurements at first glance because you gotta recalculate to one value first. Seems the first one is 180.34cm and the second one is 185.42cm. Far easier when you only need to compare one value against another without any calculation, isn't it? Even though 5 foot and 11 inches may sound/look taller (because of the big number for the inches), it isn't. Also in the imperial system, you can't simply say that 1 gallon of water is 1 cubic foot or weighs exactly 1 pound, can you? We can in the metric system. 1 liter of water weighs exactly 1 kilogram and is 1 cubic decimeter. In imperial, 1 gallon of water is about 4.54 liters, while a cubic foot is about 28.3 liters and 1 pound of water is 0.45 kilograms. You need a calculator to calculate it all because you can't simply convert one value to another. There is literally no imperial measurement that you can simply compare to another. Someone took some measurement like an el, which is the distance between their hands when the arms are stretched outwards. But that measurement is different for everybody. Even with tools, it's far easier to see which one is bigger: 5.5mm drill or 6mm, or even 8mm. In imperial, you would have divisions upon divisions like 5/16, 3/8, 3/32 and so on. You basically have to recalculate everything to the same divider to see which one is biggest. 3/8 is the same as 6/16 so 3/8 is slightly bigger than 5/16. No need for that using the metric system.

@@powerpc6037 I agree that the metric system is far more straightforward but at least your hight example isn't great. We have many instances where we look at the first value as the bigger one and the second as the smaller one. You wouldn't think that someone who is 4 years and 11 months is older than someone who is 5 years and 2 months, would you? It is the same with feet and inches.

you pay for the saw thickness. 1/4 inch saw. and yeah imperial or for america SAE is more practical. For my line of work anyways.

@@rektiumstuff3245 yeah I know my dad has a saw mill. But 40 years ago you got a 2x4 when u bought one. Just the standard has changed.

Nominal sizes have their uses too. I think pipe sizes are nominal as well, not reflecting their actual size.

@@TheOutbackIndustries and that is precisely the reason why imperial sucks. Everyone is just accepting that imperial numbers on raw goods are merely a suggestion, so when a 2*4 isn't 2 inches thick... That's fair game to many. In the end, it means more money for the manufacturer and less for the consumer. Similarly for sheet metal, the gauge varies a lot from one material to the next. Whereas in the rest of the world, the thickness is specified as a dimension, so it is very easy to understand just how much you get for your money. And if you want to know how heavy it is - thickness * area * density, and you're done. With sheet metal gauge? God knows...

@@gottagowork Pipe sizes actually did reflect their actual size and do under certain circumstances still today. The first use for pipes was (as the name suggests) piping, water pipes etc. And what is important for something that carries fluids? The inner diameter and that's where the naming comes from. Now go ahead a few more years, material grades are getting better, you need less wall thickness and you also can use those pipes for structrual applications. But for structural applications you want to have a constant outer diameter with varying thickness.

You do use Bananas? i thought you use australian imperial: koala bear foot. every day you learn something new :D

I see a lot of imperial people know both, and very very few metric people know imperial. It's like knowing two languages, it comes in handy.

@@tedundercarriage8183 well knowing metric is not a really great effort. if you can multiply by 10 and divide by 10, youre there

@@ozr2222 you're a fool if you think that's all that's involved in knowing a measurement system.

peoples only use imperial because it would be inconvenient to throw all your tools away its annoying to transition

@@kurokami5964 Incorrect.

Celsius is easier to understand: 0 Celsius water freezes, 100 Celsius water boils.

Funny. We will be mocked for not knowing multiple languages despite not needing them, but also mocked for knowing multiple measurement systems 🤣

in a country where the 1/3 pounder at McDonnalds failed because people thought that 1/4 was more than 1/3 that is....

@@malte1984 😂

Not true. A Megabyte is 1,000,000 byte. A Mebibyte is 1024^3 bytes.

@@thecouchpotato4652 you are correct here

"A megabyte is 1024^3 bytes (1,073,741,824 bytes)..." Eh, whats 3 orders of magnitude between between friends? 🤷‍♂️

@@onradioactivewaves I meant millibytes...

@@onradioactivewaves no, Megabyte is 1000^2. Mebibyte is 1024^2

Yeah, try ro break a 1/8" tap compared to M8. Love those.

Divide or multiply by 25.4 🙄

@@larsmichaelmommer i think that would be too hard for an engineering student though.

@@machinist1337 😂😂. I know a lot of great engineers, but they’ve worked with some pretty good machinist or have spent time in a shop to understand manufacturability 😂

Been there. Length is the easiest to convert tho. When it comes to freaking force or mass units and there you are deciding weather you have to convert kilograms to slugs or pound-mass ugh. Or when you have compound units that involve energy and absolute temperature scales (Farenheit to Rankine to Kelvin but answer is in Celcius) anyways, yeah.

@@machinist1337 No, it's not that hard. Engineering curricula in the USA are all standardized, they all include practically an entire semester of learning to approximate and estimate, and any engineering student should be able to convert mass and distance at the very least. It does suck, but we're not incapable of learning it.

Here in Brazil, we work at same way, using metric to measure everything and using imperial system just to catalog raw material.

Same thing in Mexico

This one is recorded in metric time! 😂

but if one system is significantly worse than the other it's just a waste of time and energy to be able to work in both. Metric is better in all aspects so why should I learn Imperial?

@@saaaammmi obvious troll is obvious.

@@theKashConnoisseur Are you telling me I'm a troll ? Sorry I'm confused. If so how is it trolling to point out an old outdated system? Or are you telling me you're a troll? I'm obviuoulsy not US american or from the other two countries that still use imperial.

Don't feed the trolls, folks.

@@theKashConnoisseur Ok mate I'm starting to think you and me have a differnt definition of trolling. Have a nice internet day.

Olha o Brasileiro perdido aqui.... hahaha Mas eu não concordo com ele. (que ambos são igualmente bons, são apenas Diferentes) Sistema Métrico é Melhor justamente porque é mais fácil. Facilidade = Menos erros e Mais Eficiencia