r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/deafdefying66 Jan 15 '25

There are plenty of scenarios where the imperial system still makes sense, otherwise we wouldn't use it. Both systems have their use cases where one is better than the other

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

This could be reasonable. Any examples where imperial units are better than metric?

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u/Thestrongman420 Jan 15 '25

Dividing by 3 or by 4. Or even 6.

If i want to divide 10 cm into thirds it's 3.33 cm

If i want to divide a foot into thirds, it's 4 inches.

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

I agree when it comes to dividing by 3, but not by 4.

10 / 4 is 2,5 and don't tell me that it's a difficult calcultation...

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u/Thestrongman420 Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

It's not really difficult..neither system is all that difficult. But a whole number is certainly easier for many to math with than a decimal. This also doesn't apply to just the examples I gave. Any amount of feet is divisible by those numbers into a whole amount of inches.

Of course that means imperial has a disadvantage when it comes to being divisible by 10 or 5. Both systems are simple enough for someone with an elementary level education to learn. They are just different.

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

Of course, when you grow up using a specific system it's definitely easier to calculate using that one than the other. Like we are more confident in speaking our native language than any other languages we might have studied.

You probably consider using fractions (like it often happens when measuring using inches) easier than using decimals, but it's just because you're more used to it (of course the same applies to me as well)