• Honytawk@feddit.nl
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    24 hours ago

    Yeah, because no other metric can be divided by an other size of the same metric.

    That is why I always have 100ml over whenever I divide a liter by 250ml increments.

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      24 hours ago

      Well then you’ve lost the whole advantage of base 10. You’re buying 2L or 4L containers and dividing them up into 250ml increments, having to do divisions of 8 or 16 like some common imperial peasant, only you’re doing it with numbers that have no real relationship with your daily life. I mean, ultimately it’s all arbitrary anyway. But when someone says use 2 cups, that’s 2 scoops, which seems better to me than having to know that 500ml is 2 scoops.

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        8 hours ago

        I have 1l milk and 1kg flour. My recipe wants ⅜ liter milk and 150g flour. 375ml is a bit odd but trivial ultimately, and very easy to measure when I just pour 375g into my blender on a scale.
        Now how would imperial cups deal with 150g from 1kg?
        I also have 45g oil, what odd measurements would that give when you try to divide it up without a single decimal number?
        Try 24g suggar.

        I’d love to see all that converted to imperial.