/r/metriccrusade
The imperial system is evil and must be destroyed, unite brethren and sisters!
/r/metriccrusade
Not knocking the American Cancer Society and the good they do, but say what it really is. 100k
Taken from a 7th grade math test.
33 American Metric System Fails That Prove We'll Use Literally Any Other Measuring System . . . plus a bonus spelling failure in the headline.
So if it's 102 F that would be 102% warm???
Its about 4 Dr. Pepper cans long
Foot fetishes, they just need to use feet.
Just now I typed Google "what wind speed is considered a hurricane metric", note how I specifically typed "metric". Before hitting the Enter key, I thought to myself: "if the first few results are expressed in retard units I'm gonna f*cking explode." After hitting the Enter key, a colourful string of 4-letter words uncontainably came out of my mouth.
2024-01-16
From LinkedIn. They should have waited until 01 April before publishing this one:
In an unprecedented event that challenges societal norms, an eminent malware attack threatens to simultaneously convert all Arabic numbers to Roman Numerals and switch the United States customary unit system to the metric system.The resulting Roman Numeral Metric System will have profound implications across all aspects of life, redefining the way we approach everyday calculations and transactions.
The article discusses the problem and gives a few mathematical problems so the readers can get a feel for the upcoming disaster.
I found a couple of misteaks errers things they got wrong:
"an eminent malware attack" – I think that should be imminent
Complex Equations and Exponents
· Equation Example: VIII + III * II = XXII.
They should put some parentheses in these equations. (Preferably an even number of them)).
In Arabic numerals this is 8+3*2=22 If we follow the PEMDAS rule this becomes 8+(3*2) = 14
2024-01-08
Online auto magazine, The Autopian gives us a collection of bizarre size comparisons from American media.