Fair, but I lived in Denver for 26 years. I will never forget the number of feet in a mile. π
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Heeey, Iβm currently living in Northglenn. Same, itβs forever etched in my memory.
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Imperial actually makes sense if there system was invented by someone who only had polyhedral dice to count with.
If Americans don't stop the foot thing soon I will bring back the havoc and destruction of using local measure!!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_units_of_measurement
No I will not define it. I will just tell you I ran 2/3 mile and that I am prussian, now you have to look it up, convert it to meters, convert that back to your mile and then you know what I am talking about.
Btw this mile is way easier to remember because a mile is 24000 feet.
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Not in defense of the imperial system, but if you're curious why it's so arbitrary, it's a crazy story about untangling a ton of proprietary guild measurements. The mile itself isn't quite proprietary (it was defined as 8 furlongs, and you can blame the English for ruining a perfectly good roman measurement) but they needed to make it a certain number of chains, rods, yards, and feet, plus a few other obscure measurements I forget about. Naturally that results in a stupid conversation rate (mostly vs yards and feet since it was basically a different system).
Why we still use it, dunno. I can see an argument for keeping feet and inches for things like carpentry (in the similar way I like hexadecimal in programming) but miles is not that. It's about as logical as this point as fahrenheit, which is to say it's outdated nonsense.
Arguing with the imperial system is like arguing with my mother. She knows her ways and methods are insane, but she will try to explain why she needs each of those eight furlongs. Either ADHD will steal her ability to finish the explanation or the audience will perish from exhaustion. And she still will be the smartest person in the room.
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And to remember the number of yards in a mile: 1 San Francisco
One-seven-six-oh
At first I thought that's how Americans measure it - in San Franciscos. But given how "San Francisco" doesnβt sound like "One seven six oh" I'm not sure if they don't.
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Did someone say feet?
So whose foot exactly?
Some European king or another. We didn't invent the system, we just decided it was too expensive to bother with changing it.
Why not just keep it simple and use the 5.4 microseconds * speed of light approximation? People just love making things overly complicated.
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