I was reading about the Appalachian mountains on Wikipedia. It's a mountain range in the United States and Canada. In the article I spotted a problem. The whole article's units have the American units first, then metric. What the heck? If this is about a mountain range in the United States and Canada, it's an international article, which means that it should have metric units first and then American units. But no, apparently they think that since most of it is in the US, it must have obsolete American customary units first and then metric units.
I created this petition on change,org about a year ago urging Wikipedia to end this national ties with America on all international articles that's making the unit structure being us customary units first then metric units. They let me create a custom link so here's the link https://www.change.org/MetricUnitsFirst
I recently learned that most American cars have switched to metric. Is there anyone who uses SAE still? It seems like it’s brain dead American consumers keeping the standard alive
US measurements are base 12 similar to how we measure time, i.e. 12 months and 24 hours... Does this correlation make picking up the US customary units more of an organic process for children?
A 20% tip would be like $150, so I want to make sure tipping is appropriate. I obviously don't want to leave no tip if it's expected.
Like, Jesus, it's like they burst a vessel whenever they see someone use the big, bad, scary US customary units.
Is it more complicated than metric units? Absolutely. But most Americans don't cry themselves to sleep every night just because we use those units instead of metric.
And on top of that, aren't Europeans supposed to be more educated than us? They shouldn't really be complaining about having to do simple math to convert since they're so "smart".
Plus, Americans learn both customary AND metric in schools. Especially when it comes to science; and in college even more so. When I lived in Europe, they had only metric rulers because they're too stubborn to learn anything other than what they use and think they can force it on everyone (just look at their imperialist history).
Like, they're not even the ones having to deal with customary units either. It's us using, but they feel like telling us what we should using? What the hell is thst? The average American lives just fine using customary units with no adverse health effects. So just leave us alone.
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I found online that these were all the conversions I could possibly need but I didn't if I could trust it so I wanted a second opinion on these conversions:
Length:
1 inch (in) ~ 2.54 cm
12 in= 1 foot (ft)
3 ft = 1 yard
5280 ft = 1760 yards = 1 (statute) mile
Area:
1 acre = 4840 sq.yards
Mass:
1 ounce (oz) ~ 28.35 g
16 oz = 1 pound (lb) (also occasionally used as a unit of force, i.e. force exerted by a 1 lb mass on Earth)
2000 lb = 1 U.S. ton (also known as a short ton)
Volume:
1 teaspoon (tsp) ~ 4.93 mL
3 tsp = 1 tablespoon (tbp)
16 tbp = 1 cup
2 cups = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart (just under 1 litre i.e ~ 0.95L)
4 quarts = 1 gallon
US Currency Denominations:
Superunit
4 Dollars - Stella
10 Dollars - Eagle
100 Dollars - Union (slang)
1,000 Dollars - Grand, rack (slang)
Subunit
1⁄4 Dollar - Quarter
1⁄10 Dollar - Dime
1⁄20 Dollar - Nickel or half dime
1⁄100 Dollar - Cent or penny
1⁄1000 Dollar - Mill
I greatly appreciate any help I can get on this matter.
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I live in Europe, so we use the metric system. Now my question is, what are the right units to use for conversions to US customary, what are the most widely used?
Browsing all the various recipe/cooking sites, I see several units used.
For liquid ingredients we use liters and milliliters? What's the more common unit to use in the US, fluid ounce or cup? Or something else?
For dry ingredients, we use grams or kilos... in the US, is see cups used to most often, but a cup of flour has quite different weight compared to a cup of rice, for example. So what to use, pounds, ounces or something else?
I'm working on a food blog and these conversions are really giving me a headache :) So what are the most common weight and volume units used in the US, do you have some personal preferences when it comes to this?
Thanks.
