Actual poster from 1917 that made me laugh. A lot.

Also, those motherfuckers are measuring the weight of those balls in kilograms, aren’t they?

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    81·
    4 months ago

    Metric drill bits are measured in mm and hardy anybody needs that much (0.33333… mm/cm) precision. I have a set of metric drill bits in 0.1mm increments and I personally might not ever need greater precision than that. Maybe in some lab environments they need greater precision but I imagine once you’re on that level it would be custom anyway.

    • the_crotch
      56·
      4 months ago

      0.33333… is what happens when you try to divide 10 by 3. This is because 10 is such a broken number that 1/3rd (a pretty common fraction) becomes an infinitely repeating decimal. In base12, 1/3rd is 4.0. Metric is broken by design because it’s based on base10. Lets take the lessons learned from the metric system and invent something new, something better, something base12.

        • the_crotch
          52·
          4 months ago

          Then why are you simping for base10 when you know enough math to understand that base12 is superior

          • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
            21·
            4 months ago

            Base 12 would be better in many cases but I just don’t see anybody switching anytime soon. We would pretty much have to start over.

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        • the_crotch
          4·
          4 months ago

          How often in real life do you want a 5th of anything? Is it more often than a third or a quarter? I bet it’s not