r/Metric

So 1cm = inch, 1dm = foot (more like baby foot), 1m = yard, 1km = mile

Also gallon for 1L and pound for 1kg

Hello people who commonly use metric. I have lived my whole life in the United States so I have mostly used the imperial system but also respect and understand the metric system. I also use it in my personal creative writing as it just makes more sense in terms of standardization.

However, something that has always bothered me is: why do we not use the decimeter?

Whenever I see height measured, it is almost always in meters when it comes to buildings, or centimeters when it comes to height of people.

But doesn't using a decimeter when it comes to distances not too long but not too short make more sense?

I feel like it's easier for me to visualize 18.5 decimeters than it is for me to visualize 185 centimeters.

I assume this could also just be because I am used to having the "foot" between an inch and a yard.

So, why isn't it used, or at least, not commonly? I feel like it could be useful for some things, surely.

One of the most common defense for Fahrenheit is smth like this;

"Fahrenheit is more intuitive for human experience. 0 degree is super cold, and 100 degree is super hot! It is just simple as that!"

With that logic, 50 degree Fahrenheit should be the "middle temperature"; which is 10 degree Celsius.

Is it just me or being 50'F/10'C actually feel cold? Such temperature requires sweater at least, and even light jacket sometimes. That is nowhere near the "middle temperature", isn't it? Or am I just weird?

Before I start I wanted to specify that this post would probably change absolutely nothing.

Kilogram is annoying, it's the base unit of SI, but for some reason it has a prefix. It is annoying, because with different units the prefixes work with a cool perk:

If one unit has a prefix, it is moved to the answer: kJ/s = kW

If you are multiplying two units with prefixes, they multiply: kW•ks = MJ

Dividing divides them (obviously): kJ/ks = W

But when base unit has a prefix it doesn't work, and kg•km/s^(2) should be meganewton, but it's NOT, it's kilonewton.

I have a few purely hypothetical ideas:

1st (most obvious) use grams. It would mean that the unit of force would be g•m/s^(2), problem: it would be equal to 1 mN, which is incredibly small, human weighting 700 000 force units would be really small. I'm not even gonna start talking about density with g/m^(3).

2nd use tonnes. This means that the unit of force would be derived as t•m/s^(2), so it would be equal to 1 kN. There are pros, like: 1. Good for heavy industry, for example: Poland mines 43 million tonnes of coal (instead of billion/milliard kilograms) the weight of a car would be ~15 force units. 2. Density of water is 1 t/m^(3) which is cool to have a base unit of density to be equal to density of water, also we could stop using g/cm^(3). But there are cons: tonne is too heavy for everyday life. Human would weight 70 mt (militonne) or 7 ct (centitonne), a slice of bread would weight 40 μt (microtones), so tonne is good for heavy industry, but if you don't want to use mili and micro prefixes, it isn't that great (still not that bad)

3rd grave, grave is suggested unit of mass equal to 1 kg, it was almost accepted, but then they realized that graf is German noble title. There is no nobelty today, so grave would work. It has all pros of kilogram + perks of being a unit without prefixes, so kilograve•km/s^(2) would in fact equal MN (meganewton). It's also good, because all other units can keep their names, grave•m/s^(2) is still 1 N. Let's make a symbol for grave "gv" 1 t = 1 Mg = 1 kgv. 1 kg = 1 gv. 1 g = 1 mg

What do you think guys? In perfect system we would use kilograms, or replace them with grams, tonnes, graves or something else. Share your opinion in the comments

I live in Canada, and we're still a slave to american products. That means anything we produce will be manufactured with imperial dimensions. I'm sick of it.

I've been trying to find perforated aluminium sheet, and it's all imperial. I've been able to find several suppliers in Canada (and overseas), but none of them make a metric product. It makes my design work much more difficult. I have to spend tons of time calculating offsets and doing conversions, it's a huge waste.

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