good point
But my question was pointed right towards those service people. Ore are they all straight?
OK, that would be a way to avoid the 1/128 inches...
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i hate inches, feet and pounds and miles ?
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But my question was pointed right towards those service people. Ore are they all straight?
Well, the other way round the problem is exactly the same - and I don't think it's the spacing between the numbers. When you're talking about 32 or 70 degrees Fahrenheit I've got not the slightest idea what that could be (even more since there's no simple conversion by dividing or multiplying, like it's between cm and inches). For Celsius it works well for me - 0 is when it starts to freeze, -5 is a little cold, -20 is quite cold, and -40 is fucking cold. In the other direction +10 to +15 is good when you're going for a hike and don't want to sweat too much, +25 to +35 is quite OK to lay in the sun and just do nothing, and +40 to +50 is just too hot to leave the shadow (at least for me). And +100 is when water boils.
So I think, that you're getting used to any common unit system - that's just a matter of the regular usage of something.
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There are vast numbers of measurement systems used throughout the world; some for historical reasons, others reflecting a cultural emphasis. And in some cases particular measurements are used for single purposes (for example, describing the height of a horse in "hands"). Just do a wikipedia search on "measurement"!
For international use, though, there is only one system, and that is the SI system, which is metric based. (There were in fact several different "metric" systems proposed over the years.) Simply for ease, most countries have adopted some or all of the SI units for common measurements such as temperature, length, mass etc. This makes global communications a hell of a lot easier.
That the US has stubbornly refused to budge from the older imperial units says something, I don't know what - even though Congress authorised metric units as long ago as 1866! I would guess that this has something to do with America's long-held national sense of self-importance, in which case - watch out! America's time in the sun, internationally speaking, seems to be going fast.
Oh, and I fully agree - dick measurements must be in inches - that should be an international standard. "Oh yeah, baby, fill me with that 22.8 centimetres!" I think not.
-T.
For international use, though, there is only one system, and that is the SI system, which is metric based. (There were in fact several different "metric" systems proposed over the years.) Simply for ease, most countries have adopted some or all of the SI units for common measurements such as temperature, length, mass etc. This makes global communications a hell of a lot easier.
That the US has stubbornly refused to budge from the older imperial units says something, I don't know what - even though Congress authorised metric units as long ago as 1866! I would guess that this has something to do with America's long-held national sense of self-importance, in which case - watch out! America's time in the sun, internationally speaking, seems to be going fast.
Oh, and I fully agree - dick measurements must be in inches - that should be an international standard. "Oh yeah, baby, fill me with that 22.8 centimetres!" I think not.
-T.
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Switch to Kelvins 
Seriously, though, Americans actually use metric all the time without realizing it There are two reasons for this:
1) The imperial system pre-dates electricity, so all the standard electrical units that you're used to (volts, amps etc) come from the SI.
2) since 1959, the remaining imperial units have been *defined* in terms of the SI. The standard inch is defined to be precisely 25.4mm. The pound is defined to be exactly 453.59237 grams.
The US has been a full member of the BIPM - the body responsible for the SI system - since its founding in 1878. It's just that the general public hasn't caught on to the fact.
Seriously, though, Americans actually use metric all the time without realizing it There are two reasons for this:
1) The imperial system pre-dates electricity, so all the standard electrical units that you're used to (volts, amps etc) come from the SI.
2) since 1959, the remaining imperial units have been *defined* in terms of the SI. The standard inch is defined to be precisely 25.4mm. The pound is defined to be exactly 453.59237 grams.
The US has been a full member of the BIPM - the body responsible for the SI system - since its founding in 1878. It's just that the general public hasn't caught on to the fact.