You do you boo but Metrics fucking awesome. It’s simple, conversions are super easy, etc. it’s just basic numbers. You can thoughtlessly multiply or divide (assuming you could thoughtlessly do that before).
You want a real shite headache? Try translating tenths of inches. I’d just burn the blueprints and tell them to try again.
Serious question about this argument. Try translating tenths of inches… to what? I assume you’re not talking about converting to metric because then any unit is problematic, and if you’re using tenths of an inch then you’re using inches, not something else, so… what’s the problem?
The most common place to find .1" is on micrometers. And that’s just fine until you need to switch it back to imperial or metric for the next processing…which the rest of your tooling is in.
These people are mad that it takes a whole day to visit someone in the middle of nowhere. These are clearly children that can’t afford anything or agitators, #DontFeedBears
There’s something I don’t understand that maybe other unicycle riders can explain to me. I can ride a unicycle and I can even juggle while riding one, but I cannot go more than 200 feet or so before my thighs completely burn out and I fall over. How do people use these things as actual forms of transportation?
You have one apple. You divide it into quarters, so that you have 0.25 of an apple. Now divide it in half. So yes well technically you do have one half of 0.25 (and 0.5 is the answer that a calculator will return) what you actually have is 1/8 of an apple (0.125).
This is what pisses me off about Matt half the time. You end up with something that in the abstract makes sense because it’s just numbers, but then if you try to make it make sense in real life it’s stupid.
Your confusion comes from the fact that dividing a quarter in half is 0.25/2. That’s not what’s shown in the comic. Dividing by 0.5 is the same as multiplying by 2. It’s just a quirk of syntax, the way we write math. If you spelled it out using English the comic would say “multiplying a quarter by two equals a half”. The confusion just stems from someone’s unfamiliarity with mathematical notation.
exactly. failure of english, not math. Math allows fairly accurate descriptions of the universe, humans (and especially languages) evolved to adequately percieve the narrow band of qualia that have been relevant to survival
Fractions are just funky when dividing. Dividing by 0.5 is the same multiplying by 2.
Your analogy is really close, but backwards is all. If you have a quarter of an apple. In order to get half a whole apple, you need another quarter. Two quarters make a half, so dividing a quarter by 0.5 gives you 2 quarters. Dividing a quarter by 2 gives you 0.5 of the original quarter which is your 1/8th
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