Replies to purplebear, page 6
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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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@purplebear go to bed son.
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@purplebear That's good to hear, thank you.
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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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@purplebear ... You are confusing me...
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@purplebear Gotta tell the doctor about my sad feels and then come home and prepare for school on thursday
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@purplebear I wish I could be twelve people. :( I'm only one people
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@purplebear I think its redundancy in popular culture has diminished its comedic value
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@purplebear Been a while since I used that... Wow!
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@purplebear Someone who uses jokes from a decade ago
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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 10 m == 100 Dm 10 m == 1000 cm
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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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@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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@purplebear Really? I want to see!
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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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@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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@purplebear oh, i think i know what your trying to say...but yeah, there are 729 people in my school district altogether, had to research, but most of the students aren't from inside the village...like me. derp.
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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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@purplebear But Metric is in base ten. Literally the easiest thing.
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@purplebear imperial originally goes off the size of some guys foot....
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@purplebear I'm american.
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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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@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 kilometer -
@purplebear i also think that millimeters is metric.
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@purplebear the metric system is easier than imperial imo
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@purplebear We actually use all the Anglo-Norman terms to describe our places. Hamlet, village, town and city all came from them.
