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2019-09-13, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Order of the Stick Trivia XX: Naturally
Honestly that sounds only a bit simpler than the American system, our main complexity is a handful of coins that are 1, 5, 10 and 25 cents (no one uses half or silver dollars and if someone tells you that they are a liar), and dimes and quarters are still fairly useful and easy to differ out them in relation to a dollar (screw pennies and nickels).
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2019-09-13, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 03:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 03:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 04:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Euro is cheating because it's new. It has nice recognizable coins and banknotes because it's new so it doesn't have to be compatible with the previous generation of coins and banknotes. The forint is hard to use the way it is because of backwards compatibility. We used to have nice recognizable coins: the 1 forint and the 2 forint coins had unique small sizes so they were easy to recognize. We don't use them anymore because of inflation, but new coins aren't that small because it would be strange to have the largest valued coins with such a small size, and existing coins can't easily change sizes either because they are long-lived, and it was confusing enough when the 100 and 200 forint coins changed size. We used to have nice recognizable banknotes. The most frequently used banknotes were the small-valued ones: the green 200 forint, the red 500 forint, and the blue 1000 forint notes. But because of inflation, the 200 forint banknote is no longer used, and the 500 forint note is getting rare. So we have one recognizable banknote, and a palette of different shades of brown for the rest, each of which already changed color twice to slowly try to navigate them to a more recognizable set. If the bank keeps up the good work, they might eventually get to a usable set of notes with a hundred more years of gradual changes, and a usable set of coins in two hundred years. The designers of the Euro didn't try for anything nice like that: they decided that everyone has to get used to the new cash in just two months.
That said, I do wish we had banknotes with different sizes, like the Euro has. That does make them much more recognizable.Last edited by b_jonas; 2019-09-13 at 04:17 PM.
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2019-09-13, 04:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 04:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 05:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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What is the use of the random stuff in the imperial system (and I’m an American, I use the imperial system by virtue of it being the one I was raised with), I can only remember what’s in a mile on a good day, barely any day can I remember volume, and Fahrenheit is downright bonkers, the metric system in length is 1:10:100:1000 etc, 1:1000 for mass and volume and 0 is freezing 100 is boiling, units of measurement are only useful in numbers, you have to divide and carry physical things for currency (and coincidentally when you are doing stuff online any denominations are completely removed so it is just how many dollars to the specificity of one hundredth of a dollar).
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2019-09-13, 05:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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What? You say that they have the exact same use as the metric system unlike currencies, they're just objectively worse at it than the metric system.
Well, you are, aren't you?
EDIT: I mean what is the point of having your scientists and population use two widely different systems? Just get on with the programm already.
EDIT 2:Centi- deci- deca and hectograms exist but nobody uses them (except centigrams for stuff like medication).
Centi- deci- deca- and hectolitres, however are often used (except decalitres because nobody ever use decaanything).Last edited by Fyraltari; 2019-09-13 at 05:08 PM.
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2019-09-13, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 05:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's very interesting how teaspoons and cups and such map so cleanly in proportion to stuff like chicken eggs and pounds of meat...almost like it's a domain-specific set of measurements intended for recipes.
But that's rather the lesser point. I am capable of converting from one unit to another when it's necessary for the situation (including when someone else needing the measure is more comfortable with different units), and as such it shouldn't matter to anyone else which unit I choose initially.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
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2019-09-13, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, heavens no. Like the rest of the country, we use U.S. Customary Units. Which are like Imperial units, but like 0.00X% different.
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2019-09-13, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, but how many bees for a quarter?
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2019-09-13, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Not sure what your point is there. As far as I can tell these aren't metric nor imperial. They barely qualify as units even.
Oh, I don't give a hoot what you do (as long as you don't crash stuff on Mars of course) but one system is objectively better designed (and rooted in universal constants, now*).
Wait, thought you didn't like prescriptivism.
By the way, no-one uses "the metric system" either. We use the International System of Units (S.I.).
Okay, but did you guess that one?
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2019-09-13, 05:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 06:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yes. Feet and miles and Fahrenheit are carried forward in no small part by legal/historical reference points. (And by "legal", I mean road speed limits are in miles per hour; that gives a lot of significance to the mile right there)
Teaspoons/cups/etc., though, do in fact work as a proportional framework for recipes, one that can work with small whole numbers (or clean fractions) of units alongside small whole numbers of chicken eggs (which are a huge pain to deal with in partial measures....).
Precisely: Conversion by formulae is exact now. The metric system is an excellent all-purpose system of measures, and conversion to/from domain-specific units can be done whenever their particular specialization would be better/worse.
And don't be so Troy about Avoirdupois, either.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
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2019-09-13, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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I make exceptions when I think it's funny.
Also SI is a silly system. The kilogram? Come on. Y'all make fun of imperial being whacky with the numbers, but and then turn around and use base units that are 1 of a thing, 1 of a thing, 1 of a thing, 1 of a thing, 1 of a thing, 1, 000 of a thing, and 602,214,076,000,000,000,000,000 of a thing.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-09-13, 06:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 07:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-13, 08:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Do buffalo wings count; since they're named after Buffalo, New York?
OQ if so.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
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2019-09-13, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Bingo.
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2019-09-14, 01:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, you're talking about decimal units other than money? Those are even better than the ones for money. We measure car speed in kilometers per hour, power in horsepowers, energy in kilowatt hours, blood pressure in millimeters of mercury but tire pressure in atmospheres, temperature in degrees celsius, engine rotation frequency in one per minute, specific food energy in kilocalories in 100 grams, quantity of certain foods in either liters or kilograms for the same sort of food, etc. And that's not even counting the totally random power of ten modifiers that people use for all units. It's so great to have so many incompatible units but then act snub about the many incompatible units that americans use.
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2019-09-14, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
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