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Post by perl4ever » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 10:50 PM UTC

oblio wrote: post #89

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A meter seems to me linked to the human body just as much as the foot. "The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle" That factor of ten is because we have ten fingers. There's no cosmic significance to ten or ten million. Or to the size of a line of longitude on our particular planet. And a meter is almost exactly a yard, or thr…

> There's no cosmic significance to ten or ten million. Cosmic? No. But social? For sure. 99.99% of math the layman will encounter is in base 10.

Post by Taniwha » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 9:00 PM UTC

mulmen wrote: post #132

Taniwha wrote: post #101

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yes - for example a US fluid Oz is different from everywhere else, as is a cup, a pint, a Venti (twenty what?) and many of the units used in cooking - using American recipes without translation can produce crap - Imperial fluid ounces are totally different largely due tax politics of the 1700/1800s

Venti is not a US Customary Unit.

Post by CRConrad » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 11:57 PM UTC

mulmen wrote: post #128

CRConrad wrote: post #127

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No, there's nothing odd about the fact that units based on one set of measures become fractional when expressed in units of another measurement system. It just shows that neither is based on the other. And of course "the fractional scale is not unique to US Customary Units", since there is no fractional scale within that measurement system. Nor within any other, AFAIK. Your pound consists of an integer number of ounc…

The meter is based on a fraction of a second.