Jimbos Audio ramblings

[CageyH]

But you buy petrol in litres, and work out fuel economy in MPG

[Jimbo]

But you buy petrol in litres, and work out fuel economy in MPG

Do the French do that?

[Pigmy Pony]

I mostly use metric when working, I find it easier to work with whole numbers. eg 630mm + 415mm, whereas calculating in imperial with the attendant fractions (eg 14 and 3/8 + 7 and 1/4) a pain.

But for most other things imperial for me.

Trip meter on the bike is odd, fuel consumption is in miles/litre. That does my head in.

Metric does have other handy properties though for calculating - one litre of water = one kg, and a cubic metre of water = one metric tonne. Again makes calculations easier, though of course not everyone wants a cubic metre of water - if for example you want a floor in your garage, concrete is better

[Jimbo]

I worked with manufacturing food products and we certainly did not use imperial measurements in the factory or when I was developing products. Product information was converted afterwards sometimes into both metric and imperial or public use.


I think schools nowadays mainly use metric units as do the science and industrial/ manufacturing industries.

[CageyH]

Do the French do that?

No, they use Litres/100km

[Pigmy Pony]

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288

[Macca]

I worked with manufacturing food products and we certainly did not use imperial measurements in the factory or when I was developing products. Product information was converted afterwards sometimes into both metric and imperial or public use.


I think schools nowadays mainly use metric units as do the science and industrial/ manufacturing industries.

this is why I said metric for science and imperial for everyday. Production processes would count as 'science'.

Schools have not taught imperial measurements for decades but youngsters still use them in everyday situations.

[CageyH]

I still use imperial units at work. Most fasteners we use are imperial, but with metric equivalence tables in all reference documents.
Switching between the two is relatively easy.

However, when I do DIY with the family, I have to be careful which tape measure I give them, as a combined metric/imperial version confuses them.

[Macca]

To get back to Hi-fi - UK magazines and sites quoting loudspeaker cab size and driver size only in metric is them being wilfully obtuse.

I think this is a partly political, and partly 'I'm a science person so I use metric even when it's totally inappropriate and fuck you.'

If this wasn't so they would give the measurements in both systems.

What's extra laughable is that the review wlll likely be full of absurd poetic rambling and no science at all.

[Pigmy Pony]

I think the manufacturers only include imperial measurements as a courtesy to the US, Myanmar and Liberia, the only three countries left who can't or won't understand metric.

Imv the only reason America isn't using metric is because it wasn't their idea.