As an American, who can blame her! They combined the unit of distance (meter), with the large unit for weight (kilo) to get it!
... What? KiloGRAM? Now you're combining two units of weight- what do you mean they're for mass, not weight? (Grams measure the mass of an object, while pounds technically measure force- particularly the force applied by gravity... This means that if you're measuring on the moon instead of Earth, the proper measurement in pounds will change with gravity, while the measurement in grams stays the same.)
Psh, this is why Imperial (technically a combination of several fragmentary unit systems, thus the bizarre unit ratios) is so much better. Everyone knows that there's 12 inches to a foot (not the thing on the end of your leg), three feet to a yard (not the ground around your house), and 1,760 yards- 5280 feet- to a mile. As opposed to what? Ten millimeters to a centimeter, ten of them to a decameter, ten to them to a meter, ten meters to a decameter, Ten of decameters to a hectometer, ten hectometers to a kilometer? That's way too many units to remember all the multipliers! :V
/S as an American, I hate how accurate this is to some Americans' thought process. Imperial is an outdated abomination created by supergluing several smaller systems of measurement together; For example, miles (from the Romans) are meant for measuring long distances, while feet and inches are meant for measuring human-sized things- hence the bizarre 5000× multiplier.
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u/Latter-Summer-5286 Kogasa Tatara Apr 29 '24
As an American, who can blame her! They combined the unit of distance (meter), with the large unit for weight (kilo) to get it! ... What? KiloGRAM? Now you're combining two units of weight- what do you mean they're for mass, not weight? (Grams measure the mass of an object, while pounds technically measure force- particularly the force applied by gravity... This means that if you're measuring on the moon instead of Earth, the proper measurement in pounds will change with gravity, while the measurement in grams stays the same.)
Psh, this is why Imperial (technically a combination of several fragmentary unit systems, thus the bizarre unit ratios) is so much better. Everyone knows that there's 12 inches to a foot (not the thing on the end of your leg), three feet to a yard (not the ground around your house), and 1,760 yards- 5280 feet- to a mile. As opposed to what? Ten millimeters to a centimeter, ten of them to a decameter, ten to them to a meter, ten meters to a decameter, Ten of decameters to a hectometer, ten hectometers to a kilometer? That's way too many units to remember all the multipliers! :V
/S as an American, I hate how accurate this is to some Americans' thought process. Imperial is an outdated abomination created by supergluing several smaller systems of measurement together; For example, miles (from the Romans) are meant for measuring long distances, while feet and inches are meant for measuring human-sized things- hence the bizarre 5000× multiplier.