(HIJACK!)
Of course, nobody in Canada uses DD/MM/YYYY except the federal government (sometimes) and MS Windows Regional settings.
Logically, YYYY/MM/DD is much more sensible since it can be sorted as one piece of text to get chronological order.
Thirty is hot,
Twenty is pleasing,
Ten is cool,
And zero is freezing.
You’re right. We should be using Planck units.
Now excuse me while I fill my car’s fuel tank with 1.34 x 10[sup]103[/sup] Planck volumes of gasoline.
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1 mile is 5280 feet, .1 mile is 528 feet and you were off by .2 miles (528 *2). Of course I’m a runner so I do calculations like that in my head all the time.
Moderator Note
Kimballkid, insults are not permitted in General Questions. Since this is fairly mild, I’m making this a note instead of a warning, but don’t do this again.
Colibri
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I don’t see how saying you’re 180 centimeters tall is anymore absurd than saying that you weigh 180 pounds.
I agree with the message that this image is trying to convey.
How high is your Å/GeV?
Sorry Colibri, was trying to be funny rather than insulting.
How is putting the day first any better than the month first. The only reason would be to go from smallest to largest units.
Well yeah, what else is there?
Another way to get a sense for how hot or cold a Celcius value feels, you can convert to Fahrenheit. Now this requires memorizing a little list in order for this to be more efficient:
[ul]A 1 degree increase in Celcius is equal to a 1.8 degree increase in Fahrenheit.[/ul]
[ul]A 5 degree increase in Celcius is equal to a 9 degree increase in Fahrenheit.[/ul]
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[li]A 10 degree increase in Celcius is equal to an 18 degree increase in Fahrenheit.[/li][/ul]
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[li]0 degrees Celcius is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.[/li][/ul]
[ul]
[li]10 degrees Celcius is is 50 degrees Fahrenheit.[/li][/ul]
[ul]
[li]20 degrees Celcius is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.[/li][/ul]
[ul]
[li]30 degrees Celcius is 86 degrees Fahrenheit.[/li][/ul]
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[li]40 degrees Celcius is 104 degrees Fahrenheit.[/li][/ul]
That’s basically my list of values that I have memorized to help me calculate my way through Celcius if I need to refer back to Fahrenheit in order to get a sense for how hot it is.
For example, if you don’t have a good sense for how 35 degrees Celcius would feel, if you know this list, you could save time by thinking, “I basically have 40-5 degrees Celcius, which is 104-9 degrees Fahrenheit, so it would feel like 95 degrees Fahrenheit.”
Or…you could memorize F=1.8C+32 if that works better for you, but it may be quicker if you know the list above.
America hasn’t changed because we are lazy and don’t like change. We don’t have to change, so we don’t.
I was taught metric in school. We were all told we were going to convert soon. It didn’t happen. I’m old enough to have seen why. It’s not America’s best side.
I, too, was taught the metric system in school, back in the 1970s when we were “sure” we were going to switch over at any instant.
And the way I was taught metric units was a clear indication as to why we DIDN’T switch:
We weren’t taught “A meter is about this long, and you divide it into a hundred centimeters.” We were taught “A meter is 39.2 inches,” and then given word problems that required us to convert back-and-forth between metric units and “real” units, e.g. “Johnny has 5 kilograms of apples. Since kilograms are such a counterintuitive unit that you personally have no gut feeling for, convert this to good old-fashioned pounds to see how many apples Johnny really has.”
That kind of defeats the whole purpose of the metric system.
Ångstroms per giga electron-volt?
(Or does the Å stand for something else in that expression? 
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Noted. A smiley would have helped, but even then it could be taken as personal jab.
Many years ago, I wrote to a calculator manufacturer, TI as I recall, with a question or suggestion (possibly pertaining to rpn) and received a reply that included a large enamel (glossy) brochure thing depicting various captioned metric values. I turned it over to see a large, grainy image of a naked woman in a discreet pose captioned “Body Temperature is Exactly 37°C”.
Yes, correct (fuel economy).
In other words, to make it logical?
It also make dates easier to sort in correct order.
How is that a “huge advantage?” were you able to give him one non-absurd example of how that would have made things easier on him? I mean, yeah, if real life was like a Professor Layton game it might be more helpful, but it ain’t.
I think he was really just telling you to go find something better to do.
Nevermind the fact that even the domestic automakers had gone metric by the '80s.
Is it 1986 still?
Regarding Ångstroms per giga electron-volt:
Balderdash! Fuel economy statistics aren’t listed in terms of the energy released by the combustion of the gasoline-air mixture, they’re listed in terms of the volume of liquid gasoline consumed.
It should be Ångstroms per cubic Ångstrom, the way God intended!
Because everyone wants to group first-of-the-months, regardless of month and year.
YYYY/MM/DD is the way to write dates to sort in chronological order, so May 1 2013 follows April 30 2013 not April 1, 2250.
If you must do 3 separate sorts to get chronological order, who cares what order M-D-Y are?