That’s the problem, the Rebels were naturally SI purists. In fact it was two yards, which is why everyone but Luke, using their SI based targeting computers, missed it.
2 Likes
2 Likes
I’m a machinist and we use inches specifically decimal inches in my part of the US.
I spent 30 minutes today trying to find a 19/32" gage sphere. because…why? An engineer somewhere decided to use a very strange diameter sphere to measure a tapered cavity at a depth. Because I always wanted to know 19 parts of 32 of something as if that’s fucking rational.
The whole system of fractional measurement infuriates me daily- who the hell came up with such an odd system of measurement? And over 150 years or so after SI metric system came out, and Americans STILL use this idiocy?
The whole thing makes me want to bang my head into a wall but my brain is trained to see increments of 0.001" by eye or less. Despite working in metric at home. Ugggh
3 Likes
i dunno. given how kessel runs are measured for all we know “meters” is a unit of time
4 Likes
Ah, but space is time…
2 Likes
“Greatest division” my ass. Some 5 % of us on this planet use a measurements system that the rest think is pretty stupid. Go figure.
But we don’t live in water.
But the Dutch do. 0 degrees is when infrastructure drastically changes.
3 Likes
Isn’t it said that a good compromise leaves everyone disappointed?
In this case it would appear that a great compromise leaves everyone seething with rage.
2 Likes
Out of curiosity, is machining afflicted by ISO 2848?
It isn’t entirely out of character for an organization that uses “ISO” as though it were an acronym for what people think its name is, when in fact it’s just a Greek prefix reference; but you know it’s going to be good when you devise yet another system of measurement, based on ‘modules’ that’s so intuitive that people start using the nickname ‘metric inch’…
1 Like
Standardized pieces are going to come in whatever size their market demands. But I get your point. I didn’t think half a millimeter one way or the other would be such a problem with carpentry. I’m lucky if I can get a contractor to do something to the nearest 1/8", much less 1/64". But I do understand the practicality of a number with many factors.
1 Like
You can’t even write “base-2” without base-3.
4 Likes
It’s a point. I thought of writing:
“There are 10 kinds of people… Those who know that base-10…”
But I stepped back from the brink. Perhaps I was too timid - all the information is there for the reader to figure it out.
2 Likes
Score!
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
