doing some house maintenance this weekend, so I pop into bunnings to pick up some screws and a few other things
I start looking for some specific sized screws. m5 too big. m3 too small. m4 should be the right size.
then I need to look through the imperial sized screws. wtf is this shit. 3/16, 5/32, 1/8. I need to fucking crunch the numbers in my head to figure out if 5/32 > 1/8 (4/32).
this truly is some backwards shit
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It's not their fault you are intelectually inferior and unable to crunch those simple calculations in your head.
> had to crunch some numbers
oi im laffin
You can go do your queer math back in China ya slant eyed poofer
no really, its super annoying. I worked as a construction labourer in the US once, and people you say all kinds of dumb shit on site;
>hey aussie user, can you pass me four thirteenths of con-do-it and an 4 eighths length of thirty two's thanks.
yeah, imperial system of measurement is retarded. whole idea of fractions is stupid! I always pick metric when I work on any project
Because we can do math, unlike the rest of the world
I thought our Australian cousins were supposed to be better at math than us burgers?
Are you actually a petrol huffing abbo by any chance?
You will never get even/even or odd/odd because those can be simplified to smaller numbers
Imperial system is actually superior for the handyman
But metric is superior for engineering
They both have their uses
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Also, the Imperial system keeps our minds active and ready to seize freedom at a moment’s notice.
>you'll never get odd/odd because it simplifies
Simplify 3/5 for me.
Metric is actually a broken system, and leads to flawed mathematical outcomes.
It's why a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes , a computer wouldn't work if a they didn't use an oddball number
We are the burgers now
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It's a defense mechanism to prevent blegs from working construction.
The best part is that I need 2 fucking sets of sockets. One for imperial and one for metric.
Ive never seen a pipe bolt or screw that was that size and dont see them online
perhaps in math and computer science but not in construction and general usage. Same way Farenheit system is stupid compare to Celsius
Thirteenth is not a measurement. 4 eights is 1/2. No wonder you had a hard time you are retarded.
In Imperial, your DENOMINATOR will ALWAYS BE EVEN.
Shut up leaf!
Imperial only uses even divisors.
Oh, and you are a faggot!
that's not true at all. the number 1024 comes from the fact that computers are discrete/digital machines -- with simply two states: 1 and 0.
Now if you have 10 bits of two states (i.e. 2^10), you can represent 1024 different combinations (0 - 1023).
Like I said, he’s probably an Abbo!
.6 - much simpler.
They do the same with their coins. They have a coin called 1/4 for some reason
yeah it's fucked up beyond belief.
Dude, don't be a retard. It's that fucking simple.
Like. Learn to reduce. It's a piece of cake. Like 1/8th of a cake. A little over 3/32 of a cake.
How do you not go insane being so bad at math?
>perhaps in math
So the thing that construction workers and meteorologists use?
We take fractions in middle school here dumbass
That sounds like a flawed mathematical outcome , even when it's divisible by 2
Thanks for proving my point
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Fuck you dude
>fractions are hard
The only thing that makes it difficult are Euro babbies that can't handle numbers other than 1 and 0 and their bastard criminal throw aways who act as though we are the ones who tried to make it more difficult.
What are you, a freedom hater?
>sensible, intelligent straya post
not really. It's easier to divide 1 meter (100cm) instead of 1 foot (12inch - 30.48cm)
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Seriously, this is why the US doesn't accept it
>Wendys 4 for $4
Fuck u amerifats makin me do maths
They were fucking with you and you fell for it
wot kind of cake?
And you have to round up or down to the nearest CM, you don't have to round up or down when you use a fraction
>this faggot can't into fractions
it’s 6/10 retard
Decimals exist.
>what are even numbers
Lol why are you faggots so retarded? Good god no wonder America is #1
It’s worth 1/4 a dollar lmao
Its 25 cents, how is that in any way comparable?
Stop being a fucking idiot and read the MASSIVE amounts of documentation available online! Try and imagine having an IQ higher than 85!
its because of the rule of 8, not because of the metric system, it has to do with the binary system
Imperial pint or American pint?
Actually, they do shit like that when you're new to fuck with you and test you.
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Fantastic, that's the best kind
No, americans are just that stupid
Case in point: This thread where americans defend their backwards measurement system.
>dividing a unit in a base-12 system by five
>in a system that only uses even divisors
Sounds like a metric-fag trying to cope that he cant define a 3rd of a meter.
Decimals aren't fractions and you have to round up or down when converting a fraction to a decimal or vise versa
3 is the MSRP
but 5 is THE IN STORE PRICE
Do all Australians have this much trouble with fractions?
>And you have to round up or down to the nearest CM
No you can just use MM after the decimal point.
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It works fine for me. You can't visualize an inch broken into 32 pieces?
True.
> Blinker Fluid
> Board Stretcher
Ive heard about 6 others.
You could just measure something instead of guessing
Why does that sound like a flawed mathematical outcome?
Do you even understand how binary works?
Decimals are fractions you retard. You must have failed grade school math.
The conversion is rounding to the next nearest 100
On off
LOL FAGGOT DOESN'T KNOW MATH
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No, they aren't. Google shit bro
It's a fraction of an inch. It sucks, but just use a calculator.
The inch system is pretty nice for engineering. Having a tolerance be ±0.003 inch is nicer than having it be ±0.075 millimeter. Millimeters are too small.
You can have a fraction that is a repeating decimal integer, retard.
Seven millimeters is .284 inches. I know cause of my gun
Skyhook, checkered paint, can of compressed air(note pc cleaner is not compressed air it uses a refrigerant not a compressor), can’t remember any others atm
Now if you have 4 on/off switches, how many different combinations of on and off can you have?
>abbo can't into math
kek
rekt
uh yeah 13ths is a measurement. so is 4/104812ths
Celsius is good for broad spectrum but Fahrenheit better for every day. A hot day is more than twenty degrees hotter than an ice cube.
ah yes the infamous board stretcher
I agree. It's fucking retarded. I wish we'd just go to metric.
There are two kinds of Countries.
Those who use the Metric system, and those who go to the moon.
Your tiny Eurofag brain can't comprehend moon landing units.
I am a yank. I am insane, to answer your question.
Imperial? I'm sure you mean FREEDOM NUMBERS
That's doesn't make it any less divisible by two
Same. I know 7.62mm is .308 due to rifles
>Your tiny Eurofag brain can't comprehend moon landing units.
Lol Imperial is British you mongo
We Americans pride ourselves on being special, different, complicated, confusing and better than everyone else.
>how the fuck do you yanks not go insane
How do you know they haven't.
You're both being stupid, it has to do with the word size. 8 bits was the agreed one to standardize. If word size had been defined as something other than 8 bits, it would be a different power of 2. There were plenty of computers using other word sizes before home pcs.
I think you argued my point? Learn better engrish.
Oh I'm sorry I only went to school for engineering. I should have just used Google. Silly me
because math isn't hard?
"what are fractions?" -- retard
But you can make it as precise as you wish by handling smaller units.
I get that a straight fraction in the imperial system is in theory more precise, after all a 1/3 of a meter is never a perfect 3rd since it is undefined and only gets as precise as you are willing to go down on units.
But surely no actual man made structure or tool is perfect and so at the end of the day isn't it more realistic to say something is 0.031250003 than 1/32?
Are you saying that Liberia and Myanmar also landed on the moon?
Thanks Chang. But you should know that Americans give zero fucks about what others think of us or what we do. We don't need permission from Eurocucks and their self-hating progeny.