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Originally Posted by mineistaken
You fail at arguing because it does not matter if I am American or not. Its completely irrelevant. We are speaking about the fact that metric system is better.
Your other argument about not understanding imperial system was also failed argument because its not about understanding, its about the fact that metric conversions takes split second and imperial conversions often takes serious math.
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Do you not understand that just because Imperial is our "standard" doesn't mean we don't know metric. We're taught it in school just the same as Imperial. Look at the conversion has done in Canada..
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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
In metric Canada - I still buy two-by-fours and sheets of four-by-eight at Home Depot. I know how long a 3" ardox nail is...couldn't tell you how many millimeters that'd be. My tape measures are all inches and feet - none of this centimeter/meter stuff.
I have a 5 gallon gas can in my garage. Hell if I know how many litres it holds.
I grew up with imperial measure in school - before the country went metric. I still think in imperial terms.
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So keep arguing, it won't change anything and I'll continue using what I use and you'll continue getting mad over something that doesn't affect you.
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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Since you are programmer your argument looks similar to:
Why should I do this thing in 1 code line if I perfectly do this in 3 lines. LOL. You should do it in 1 line because its more effective, optimized and time sensitive, and easier, and less chance to make a mistake and so on. Its simply no brainer. Yet you do not argue this fact, you argue as "proud American" with hurt feelings.
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Depends on what it is, I can use a simple ternary operator and keep it all on one line, but looking back at code later on down the road it could be hard to realize what it's doing so it's sometimes best for readability to do it on 3 lines.