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Platystemon)
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is there a metric unit fo r freakin post quality folks???
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Jun 24, 2021 14:00
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aphid_licker posted:You use the thumb to point at whatever number you're at, if I'm interpreting that pic correctly And then you count normally with your right hand to keep track of how many 12s you got. That's why hours have 60 minutes and minutes have 60 seconds.
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Jun 24, 2021 14:04
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lobster shirt posted:is there a metric unit fo r freakin post quality folks??? the bigpeeler
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Jun 24, 2021 14:09
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aphid_licker posted:You use the thumb to point at whatever number you're at, if I'm interpreting that pic correctly God drat those people were smart af
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Jun 24, 2021 14:13
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World War Mammories posted:the bigpeeler I believe you meant, " golden man babies" goonsir
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Jun 24, 2021 14:49
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Elman posted:And then you count normally with your right hand to keep track of how many 12s you got. That's why hours have 60 minutes and minutes have 60 seconds. This is pretty sweet. If you count your 12s with the same technique, you can count up to 12 * 12 + 12 = 156 on your fingers
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Jun 24, 2021 15:06
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Owl guy comes off as unhinged, is this imperials fault or metrics? Ban all units of measurement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOWIMJkKpc
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Jun 24, 2021 15:17
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lil poopendorfer posted:I believe you meant, " golden man babies" goonsir one bigpeeler is ten golden manbabies. the “goldmined thread” unit containing 5 golden manbabies is recognized by the general conference on weights and measures but they recommend its deprecation
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Jun 24, 2021 15:20
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Imperial must be preserved in order to piss off the kind of people capable of becoming a Fandom for unit conversions. crimedog posted:This is pretty sweet. If you count your 12s with the same technique, you can count up to 12 * 12 + 12 = 156 on your fingers Base 12 is historically really common and it is very very bizarre that people attribute base 10's current dominance to anatomy instead of history given the evidence we have.
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Jun 24, 2021 16:16
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I suppose if you really wanted to get nuts counting with your fingers, just do 10-bit binary for 2^10 = 1024. We really are merging with machines
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Jun 24, 2021 16:33
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crimedog posted:I suppose if you really wanted to get nuts counting with your fingers, just do 10-bit binary for 2^10 = 1024. 1023 unless you're a dude I guess
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Jun 24, 2021 17:07
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I will say in Metrics defense that pounds vs kilos are both equally abstract so metric wins for ease of conversion to larger sizes
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Jun 24, 2021 17:10
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Abongination posted:Owl guy comes off as unhinged, is this imperials fault or metrics? it's partly because arguments in favor of using only the imperial system invariably sound like puerile hillbilly ignorance while arguments in favor of using only the metric system come across as effete nerd bullshit. either way throwing a fit is for babies. ...but if anyone is actually taking this silly flamewar seriously instead of just shitposting along for amusement, they're even more deranged than both categories and the only way to dispose of of such hazardous waste is to give them a moderator star Scrub-Niggurath posted:I will say in Metrics defense that pounds vs kilos are both equally abstract so metric wins for ease of conversion to larger sizes yeah SI is more convenient in general but when I do science/engineer poo poo my take is "meh?" because units are arbitrary and meaningless and I deal in whatever units I encounter. don't need to visualize or care about anything, I just throw math at the problems until I run out of problems. btw the largest unit of mass is ur-mom
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Jun 24, 2021 17:24
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silentsnack posted:
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Jun 24, 2021 17:37
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Elman posted:And then you count normally with your right hand to keep track of how many 12s you got. That's why hours have 60 minutes and minutes have 60 seconds. The second division of the hour was made millennia after people stopped counting like that.
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Jun 24, 2021 17:43
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I'm convinced, HootTheOwl is right.Platystemon posted:The second division of the hour was made millennia after people stopped counting like that.
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Jun 24, 2021 17:45
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:ah hah, but what about the first? 
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Jun 24, 2021 17:52
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Platystemon posted:The second division of the hour was made millennia after people stopped counting like that. Yes but it was based upon divisions of an angle, which had been minutes and seconds in a 1:60 ratio for a long time
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Jun 24, 2021 18:30
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The oldest time system I'm aware of is 12 watches per day and 30 gesh per watch, so 360 gesh per day, neatly mimicking 12 months of 30 days for 360 days per year. Each gesh has 12 hands, each of which is 30 grains of duration, so another layer of 360, giving 129,600 grains per day, compared to our 86,400 seconds per day.
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Jun 24, 2021 18:38
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Lol at u losers living in 3 dimensions. I only need one unit: length. And it's looooooong
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Jun 24, 2021 19:28
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Funny how metric evangelists still use the same hosed up non-decimal gregorian calendar system as the rest of us. What's the metric unit for hypocrisy?
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Jun 24, 2021 20:48
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6 hours = 360 minutes = 21,600 seconds = time you won't be able to post for if you keep talking about the most boring derail I've ever seen on this God forsaken website. Have some drone art for your troubles 
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Jun 24, 2021 20:53
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Buttchocks posted:What's the metric unit for hypocrisy? the liberal
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Jun 24, 2021 21:45
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Buttchocks posted:What's the metric unit for hypocrisy? The Hague
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Jun 24, 2021 22:00
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What the gently caress just happened in here?
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Jun 24, 2021 22:40
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numbers aren't real.
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Jun 24, 2021 22:42
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Units are attached to measurements which are all approximations amd hardly have any universal meaning when it comes to the cold hard facts of the Real world.
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Jun 25, 2021 00:01
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Inceltown posted:6 hours = 360 minutes = 21,600 seconds = time you won't be able to post for if you keep talking about the most boring derail I've ever seen on this God forsaken website. Only I have the brains to rule Lylat!
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Jun 25, 2021 00:10
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i swear to god, if you people keep posting incorrect things about measurements, my dread power will only grow. beware
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Jun 25, 2021 01:00
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120000 yards is only 68.18 miles so the imperial system is fundamentally flawed
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Jun 25, 2021 01:13
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An acre is 43,560 sq ft. Because that sounded like a good idea at the time!
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Jun 25, 2021 01:25
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i regularly do work in two units, mm which is pretty standard, and mil which is a thousandth of an inch. im more familiar with that being called a 'thou' but instead i get to explain to people over and over again that mils is not short for millimeter. this is the future nativists want
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Jun 25, 2021 01:26
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:An acre is 43,560 sq ft. Because that sounded like a good idea at the time! 1 acre is 160 square rods or 10 square chains or 0.1 square furlongs. what brilliance to invent extra units for 16.5ft and 66ft and 660ft, so many ways to smuggle dick jokes into your survey reports.
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Jun 25, 2021 01:45
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uber_stoat posted:numbers aren't real. 
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Jun 25, 2021 07:01
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Elman posted:Just teach them to count the Sumerian way: Tulip posted:Base 12 is historically really common and it is very very bizarre that people attribute base 10's current dominance to anatomy instead of history given the evidence we have.
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Jun 25, 2021 08:09
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learn to count bitwise on your hands and impress absolutely nobody when you count up to 1023 on your hands
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Jun 25, 2021 08:51
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Tiler Kiwi posted:learn to count bitwise on your hands and impress absolutely nobody when you count up to 1023 on your hands 132
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Jun 25, 2021 09:13
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FFT posted:132 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BiVIaoFXgE
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Jun 25, 2021 09:17
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i measure time and mass in meters, guess my field
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Jun 25, 2021 09:26
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dex_sda posted:i measure time and mass in meters, guess my field Machine learning for self-driving cars.
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Jun 25, 2021 09:28
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