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A common misperception about imperial measurements
    #26601380 - 04/14/20 07:12 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I've seen on a few teks and comments people saying "if you measure with metric the volume and weight will be the same for water"  Implying the same is not true of imperial.  It's actually even more true for imperial.  Metric uses CC's, ml's and grams, all of which are the same.  Imperial uses ounces.  Fluid ounces are volume, plain ounces are weight, an ounce of water weighs an ounce.  A pint of water weighs a pound.  Imperial distances and temperatures are completely random and silly, but volume and weight are not, and they make more sense than metric to me because they are binary rather than decimal.  I greatly prefer thinking about halves and quarters rather than percents.


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Re: A common misperception about imperial measurements [Re: Babylon]
    #26601386 - 04/14/20 07:14 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I haven't done a single math since I got a smart phone


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