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metric vs standard

metric vs standard

  • standard

    Votes: 9 30.0%

  • metric

    Votes: 20 66.7%

  • british standard

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • other

    Votes: 1 3.3%

  • I measure cow hooves to three shades of the wind

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    30
CLAX1911 said:
Fahrenheit is based on the freezing temprature of blood and Celsius is based on the freezing temprature of water. I don't think one is metric.
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C is metric because when you start looking at calories, they are defined as heating one gram of water by one 1 Deg C. Other than that, no relations.
 
PoS said:
I cant get used to metric. I can tell the length of a meter, but when you get to centimeters or kilometers, youve lost me.
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Just remember that one is shorter and the other is longer ;)
 
Grand Mal said:
3.3 millimeters. It's very simple.what's a hundred divided by whatever?
Metric is divisible by whatever you want. It's whole numbers and decimals. Fractions, not so much. Picture this- we've both got only pencil and paper. We each have to do three division problems, dividing by 7. Your numbers are
1' 6 3/4"
22' 8 7/8"
8' 8 5/16"

My numbers are...
246 mm
2738mm
1488mm

Who has the easier job?
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That would be me.
 
Grand Mal said:
3.3 millimeters. It's very simple.what's a hundred divided by whatever?
Metric is divisible by whatever you want. It's whole numbers and decimals. Fractions, not so much. Picture this- we've both got only pencil and paper. We each have to do three division problems, dividing by 7. Your numbers are
1' 6 3/4"
22' 8 7/8"
8' 8 5/16"

My numbers are...
246 mm
2738mm
1488mm

Who has the easier job?
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Metric is great because even when they go small, millimeters are always broken into halves, quarters or tenths. So a typical tight production-level tolerance is 0.25mm. A tight machining tol is 0.1mm and a similar tooling tolerance is 0.01---or 250, 100 and 10 Microns respectively when discussing them during a conversation.
 
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