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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- Femboy sam sulek repeated this.
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@northernnarwhal Yeah exactly, and there's no like, set rule to how big a town has to be to become a city either.
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@northernnarwhal my town is like 4miles bt 10 miles if it was exactly rectangular
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@ellieellie I mean, even up here in Canada, every province has jurisdiction over what they define and legislate as a "town".
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@purplebear I live in a city with an area of 292.4 km^2
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@northernnarwhal i'm in the U.S. i don't do the metric system
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@purplebear It's approximately 181.7 square miles
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@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
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@purplebear the metric system is easier than imperial imo
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@purplebear i also think that millimeters is metric.
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@purplebear >Easier
>An inch is 254 millimeters, not 10
>1 to 12 to 3 to 5240
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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
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@therainbowdashx i guess its just cause i learned to measure with imperial and you guys learned with metric
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@purplebear I'm american.
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@nerthos 25.4*
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@purplebear But Metric is in base ten. Literally the easiest thing.
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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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@mrmattimation i guess its not as confusing i just think about imperial because that was the only way i was taught
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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
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@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.
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@northernnarwhal really?
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@northernnarwhal well blah to you miss know it all
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@metaltao couldn't of said it any better,
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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.
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@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
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@purplebear Really? I want to see!
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@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.
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@northernnarwhal my brain hurts
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@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)
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@northernnarwhal King Henry would /never/ drink chocolate milk.
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@northernnarwhal sry I'm no good with math :b derp I guess I am stupid
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@purplebear 10 m == 100 Dm 10 m == 1000 cm
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@ellieellie I asked him he says you're full of crap
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@metaltao whaaaaaaat I guess I really am just stupid
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@northernnarwhal What a lousy king.
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@ellieellie You're a lousy commoner
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@northernnarwhal Don't you mean I'm a... lousy pleb! Eh? EHHH?
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@ellieellie Plebian, actually. Emily and I are patricians.
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@northernnarwhal i know you are but what am I?
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@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?
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@purplebear Someone who uses jokes from a decade ago
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@purplebear Been a while since I used that... Wow!
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@northernnarwhal A century ago*
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@northernnarwhal well blah it was funny even now
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@ellieellie blah to you too
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@purplebear I think its redundancy in popular culture has diminished its comedic value
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@northernnarwhal why are you guys picking on me, the imperial system, the joke. I am only 12 people
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@purplebear I wish I could be twelve people. :( I'm only one people
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@redenchilada blah that's not what I meant I meant twelve years old, people
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@purplebear ... You are confusing me...
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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.
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@metaltao I am twelve years old how could I say it simpler. See what I mean! Stop picking on me!
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@northernnarwhal There hasn't been any hint of ad hominem in your arguments so they're perfectly fair
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@ellieellie That's what I'm saying. I've been as impartial as I can.
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@northernnarwhal you know I don't really care anymore
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@northernnarwhal it's fine
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@northernnarwhal say what you want I will not complain
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@purplebear That's good to hear, thank you.
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@purplebear go to bed son.
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@l1ghtsword um I'm a girl and it is 7:30
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@purplebear Well my life has been a lie, i must have picked up the wrong baby at the hospital...
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@l1ghtsword your weird
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@purplebear Iv heard this previously, and i am in a position to agree with you.
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@purplebear your weird what?
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@ellieellie no Ryan jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjetc is weird
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@purplebear Yeah. He is.
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@purplebear not etc its ryanjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj At your service.
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@l1ghtsword I just didn't want to type that much. what an impractical username
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@purplebear impractical, or completely necessary?
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@l1ghtsword definitely impractical why type that
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@purplebear only time will tell.
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@l1ghtsword I say once again: you. Are. Weird.
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@purplebear words.
