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  • Henle [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Well inches and feet are the only imperial unit that works for base 12 at all, so that's kind of a bad example

    Ounces, pounds, liquid ounces, quarts gallons etc none of that shit work for the system you just said.

    Just look at fucking feet to miles and try to use your fucking base 12 on that.

    Also what's smaller than an inch or an ounce? Fuck you that's what better break out the fractions you just shit talked

    • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Volume is easy, with some caveats.

      • 1 ounce = 2 tablesspoons
      • 1 cup=8 ounces= 2^3 ounces
      • 1 pint=2 cups= 2^4 ounces
      • 1 quarts = 2 pints = 2^5 ounces
      • 1 gallon = 4 quarts = 2^7 ounces

      We need a unit between ounce and cup and quat and gallon, but it's pretty consistent.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        1 cup = what now?

        idk I'm used to saying that 21 degrees is comfortable and 30-40 degrees is increasingly warm/hot. I can say decimals if I want to, but no one is that precise. We had a 46 degree day last year and no one was like "were it only 45.3" or something. I never got that particular argument; the granularity for human comfort is way less than the 200 degrees. That said, other people are used to it the other way.

        For some reason, I remember that it's 5280 feet per mile. I don't use either measurement for anything. I think I just remember random numbers. idk how many inches that is tho

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Just look at fucking feet to miles and try to use your fucking base 12 on that.

      You're comparing the wrong things. You use yards to mile, and you use feet to yards. There are 1760 yards in a mile and there are 1760 feet in one third of a mile. You're right that they're not base 12 but the base 16 stuff seems to be used for longer distances while base 12 is used for shorter measurements. Feet are used for measuring room size distances. Yards are used for walking distances. Miles are used for non-walking distances requiring horse (or wheels in the modern day).