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Part of the problem is there isn't a concrete definition of what size a town is, and it varies all over the world. Literally the only similarity is "bigger than a village but smaller than a city".
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:47:50 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal Yeah exactly, and there's no like, set rule to how big a town has to be to become a city either.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:48:17 UTC from web-
@ellieellie I mean, even up here in Canada, every province has jurisdiction over what they define and legislate as a "town".
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:49:16 UTC from web
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@northernnarwhal my town is like 4miles bt 10 miles if it was exactly rectangular
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:48:50 UTC from web-
@purplebear I live in a city with an area of 292.4 km^2
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:50:16 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal i'm in the U.S. i don't do the metric system
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:51:52 UTC from web-
@purplebear It's approximately 181.7 square miles
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:54:35 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal the imperial system is so much easier 10 millimeters to an inch 12 inches to a foot 3 feet to a yard 5240 feet to a mile
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:56:34 UTC from web-
@purplebear the metric system is easier than imperial imo
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:57:15 UTC from Mayonnaise -
@purplebear i also think that millimeters is metric.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:57:35 UTC from Mayonnaise-
@therainbowdashx i guess its just cause i learned to measure with imperial and you guys learned with metric
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:58:40 UTC from web-
@purplebear I'm american.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:58:55 UTC from Mayonnaise
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@purplebear >Easier
>An inch is 254 millimeters, not 10
>1 to 12 to 3 to 5240
>Metric is 100cm to a meter, 1000 meters to a kilometerTuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:58:27 UTC from web-
@nerthos 25.4*
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:59:03 UTC from web
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@purplebear It's 5,280 feet to a mile and I'm pretty sure it's closer to 25 millimeters per inch
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 21:58:30 UTC from web -
@purplebear But Metric is in base ten. Literally the easiest thing.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:00:44 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation i guess its not as confusing i just think about imperial because that was the only way i was taught
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:01:54 UTC from web
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@purplebear How in god's is that easier than just moving a decimal place? Not to mention your entire system of measurement if based off, of all things, the lengh of a barley seed. Literally only 3 countries still actively use the Imperial system and only one of them isn't a developing nation.
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@northernnarwhal barley seed=folk tale and i knew the U.S. was the only developed country who used it we are actually trying to use the metric system if the data involves more than the us but school aged children are still taght inperial
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:03:47 UTC from web-
@purplebear You guys literally define 3 barley corns as an inch. You need 12 of those for a foot, 3 of those for a yard, 1760 of those for a mile. And nautical mile, which is completely different, is defined as being 6080 feet. In the metric system, all you do to convert measurements is move the decimal place left and right. Plus, metric uses the dimensions of Earth itself as its base measurement.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:16:20 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal really?
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:18:30 UTC from Mayonnaise-
@therainbowdashx Yup.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:18:52 UTC from web
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@northernnarwhal well blah to you miss know it all
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:19:02 UTC from web-
@purplebear ...
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:19:29 UTC from web-
@metaltao couldn't of said it any better,
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:20:04 UTC from Mayonnaise
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@purplebear The imperial system is an outdated and unnecessarily complex system of measurement that has no place in the modern world. I understand you can't just completely redo a country's entire measuring system overnight but that doesn't take away my irks with the system.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:21:05 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal wow well i think it will be hard to use metric as our system seeing as it has always been imperial but believe it or not they are actually trying in virginia
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:22:26 UTC from web-
@purplebear Really? I want to see!
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:22:49 UTC from web -
@purplebear It's easy. For the units just use the phrase "King Henry Doesn't Mind Drinking Chocolate Milk" (Kilometres, Hectometres, Decametres, Metres, Decimetres, Centimetres, and Millimetres). That's from highest to lowest. So when you want to convert to just divide or multiply by 10 for each unit you're jumping. So, for examples, 1 centimetre is 10 millimetres (1*10) and 100 decametres is 1 kilometre (100/(10*10)). Easy.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 22:28:49 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal my brain hurts
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:06:17 UTC from web-
@purplebear It's pretty simple. If you move x spaces on the acronym you move the decimal x spaces. If you had 5000.0 of a measurement and moved 3 spaces left on the acronym you'd move the decimal three places left, so you'd left with 5.0000 of the new measurement (or alternatively just 5 if you're not using significant digits)
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:09:43 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal sry I'm no good with math :b derp I guess I am stupid
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:11:31 UTC from web-
@purplebear 10 m == 100 Dm 10 m == 1000 cm
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:12:26 UTC from web-
@metaltao whaaaaaaat I guess I really am just stupid
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:13:40 UTC from web-
@purplebear 100 Centimeters == 1 Meter "Centi" means hundredth. So, 100 centimeters == 1 Meter. Milli means a thousandth. so, 1000 millimeters == 1 meter. Make sense so far?
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:18:02 UTC from web
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@northernnarwhal King Henry would /never/ drink chocolate milk.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:10:48 UTC from web-
@ellieellie I asked him he says you're full of crap
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:13:22 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal What a lousy king.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:13:43 UTC from web-
@ellieellie You're a lousy commoner
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:14:23 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal Don't you mean I'm a... lousy pleb! Eh? EHHH?
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:15:30 UTC from web-
@ellieellie Plebian, actually. Emily and I are patricians.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:15:56 UTC from web
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@northernnarwhal i know you are but what am I?
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:17:25 UTC from web-
@purplebear Someone who uses jokes from a decade ago
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:18:15 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal A century ago*
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:18:34 UTC from web-
@ellieellie blah to you too
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:20:28 UTC from web
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@northernnarwhal well blah it was funny even now
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:19:04 UTC from web-
@purplebear I think its redundancy in popular culture has diminished its comedic value
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:20:49 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal why are you guys picking on me, the imperial system, the joke. I am only 12 people
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:22:55 UTC from web-
@purplebear I wish I could be twelve people. :( I'm only one people
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:23:17 UTC from web-
@redenchilada blah that's not what I meant I meant twelve years old, people
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:25:33 UTC from web-
@purplebear ... You are confusing me...
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:26:10 UTC from web-
@metaltao I am twelve years old how could I say it simpler. See what I mean! Stop picking on me!
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:27:42 UTC from web
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@purplebear I wouldn't say I'm picking on you, I'm expressing my distaste for a system of measurement and an old joke. I have not referred to you at all as the object of my disliking.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:26:56 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal There hasn't been any hint of ad hominem in your arguments so they're perfectly fair
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:27:47 UTC from web-
@ellieellie That's what I'm saying. I've been as impartial as I can.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:28:27 UTC from web-
@northernnarwhal you know I don't really care anymore
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:29:45 UTC from web -
@northernnarwhal it's fine
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:30:06 UTC from web -
@northernnarwhal say what you want I will not complain
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:30:30 UTC from web-
@purplebear That's good to hear, thank you.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:31:23 UTC from web -
@purplebear go to bed son.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:31:26 UTC from web-
@l1ghtsword um I'm a girl and it is 7:30
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:32:49 UTC from web-
@purplebear Well my life has been a lie, i must have picked up the wrong baby at the hospital...
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:33:51 UTC from web-
@l1ghtsword your weird
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:34:53 UTC from web-
@purplebear Iv heard this previously, and i am in a position to agree with you.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:35:25 UTC from web -
@purplebear your weird what?
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:35:26 UTC from web-
@ellieellie no Ryan jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjetc is weird
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:36:38 UTC from web-
@purplebear Yeah. He is.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:36:57 UTC from web -
@purplebear not etc its ryanjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj At your service.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:37:34 UTC from web-
@l1ghtsword I just didn't want to type that much. what an impractical username
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:39:18 UTC from web-
@purplebear impractical, or completely necessary?
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:42:00 UTC from web-
@l1ghtsword definitely impractical why type that
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:43:57 UTC from web-
@purplebear only time will tell.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:44:20 UTC from web-
@l1ghtsword I say once again: you. Are. Weird.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:47:32 UTC from web-
@purplebear words.
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:48:06 UTC from web
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@purplebear Been a while since I used that... Wow!
Tuesday, 02-Sep-14 23:18:31 UTC from web
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