say, you do understand that in metric you don’t convert between units, you just move a decimal left or right?
as i said elsewhere, in metric nobody cares where you put the decimal and people just decide what’s convenient for them or depending on the precision. nobody says ”we’re 153’267 cm from home” because you don’t need that precision. unless you work in road construction, because those tiny errors do add up, and you’d probably give that as 1532.67 m. i immediately know it’s roughly 1.5 km, and nobody would say ”away from home“ at that distance, so you probably don’t even know what exactly 153’267 cm is…
nobody uses 1/5th of a mile because nobody knows what that is. nobody has issues identifying 1/5th of a km as either 200 m or 0.2 km.
as i said elsewhere, you don’t convert units in imperial because it sucks. you do move decimals all the time in metric, because it’s easy.
I fully understand roughly what 1/5 of a mile would be without any effort. That sounds perfectly reasonable and recognizable for me and I doubt I’m alone. It’s because it’s the system I use. Yours works for you because you’re familiar with it. That’s all there is to it.
say, you do understand that in metric you don’t convert between units, you just move a decimal left or right?
as i said elsewhere, in metric nobody cares where you put the decimal and people just decide what’s convenient for them or depending on the precision. nobody says ”we’re 153’267 cm from home” because you don’t need that precision. unless you work in road construction, because those tiny errors do add up, and you’d probably give that as 1532.67 m. i immediately know it’s roughly 1.5 km, and nobody would say ”away from home“ at that distance, so you probably don’t even know what exactly 153’267 cm is…
nobody uses 1/5th of a mile because nobody knows what that is. nobody has issues identifying 1/5th of a km as either 200 m or 0.2 km.
as i said elsewhere, you don’t convert units in imperial because it sucks. you do move decimals all the time in metric, because it’s easy.
I fully understand roughly what 1/5 of a mile would be without any effort. That sounds perfectly reasonable and recognizable for me and I doubt I’m alone. It’s because it’s the system I use. Yours works for you because you’re familiar with it. That’s all there is to it.
Completely missing the point by three freedom eagles per PBR keg, but you still needed to say something right?
How many feet are 1/5th mile + 1/3rd mile + 397 feet?
How many meters are 0.301 km + 0.65 km + 49 m?