Great article Giles. But for an engineer like myself ....how crazy is to use the imperial units. They make no sense, and complicate all the math. It's funny to see how you mess with the equations to insert conversion factors, like from ft/sec to mph. It's not that it is impossible to understand, anybody can do the conversions. It just feels weird. I can understand the tradition and the people using the imperial system in they everyday life. But for engineering and technical stuff... You guys should switch to metric. You see how much easier everything is. Back to the subjet. Thanks for the article, really good. It reminds me of when I studied all this in the university.
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But for an engineer like myself ....how crazy is to use the imperial units. They make no sense, and complicate all the math. It's funny to see how you mess with the equations to insert conversion factors, like from ft/sec to mph.
It's not that it is impossible to understand, anybody can do the conversions. It just feels weird.
I can understand the tradition and the people using the imperial system in they everyday life. But for engineering and technical stuff... You guys should switch to metric. You see how much easier everything is.
Back to the subjet. Thanks for the article, really good. It reminds me of when I studied all this in the university.