Americans will use anything but the Metric System
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2024
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I'm just saying if she really wants to impress me, she knows what she has to do.
She could clear all of the books if you download them as PDFs and put them on a thumb drive
Instant gold medal!
3.658 meters isn’t inherently any more comprehensible than 12 feet. I think “about 2 fairly tall dudes high” is better than 60 something books either way.
No one will say 3.658m. We would say about 3.5m or 3 and a half meters. I'm pretty sure those 12' are not exact either. You wouldn't say 11 feet, 5 and 1/32 inches, right?
Okay, 3.5 meters is not any more inherently comprehensible than 12 feet.
I’m not denying the superiority of metric, I wish the US would just switch over already. However, unless you already know how long a meter or foot is in reality, you won’t have a good idea how high she can jump. Relating it to something makes it a lot easier to understand. Jumping 35 books is a terrible analogy, but jumping over 2 tall men would work pretty well.
Having the units in imperial and metric is much more comprehensible for most people compared to imperial and a large number of books of which I don't even know how thick they are
Well, if you're already familiar with the metric system, you can probably guess how long a meter is. It's like when you're used to the imperial system and you can guess how long a foot is or something like that.
Wait, she jumped for 12 minutes?
Ok, but how many Simone Biles books could James Patterson jump over?
A surprising number, but then I'm told that James Patterson is actually the pen name of Michael Jordan.
Oh yeah? Well I can jump over hundreds of books on my tablet.
Take that Simone Biles
Face it, haters: for all her accomplishments, Simone Biles is still no James Patterson.
Has Simone Biles even written one single novel that got turned into a TV series?
If you add another ‘ it’s twice the size of my dingdong