Re:It's time for the US to use the metric system
by Doxin on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:39AM
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Okay so quickly, without google, how many gallons are there in a cubic yard?
Now for the people who know metric it's fairly trivial to calculate how many liters there are in a cubic meter. A liter is defined as being one cubic decimeter. A decimeter being one step down from a meter means for cubic measurements it's a factor 1000. one cubic meter multiplied by a thousand is 1000 cubic decimeters or, equivalently, 1000 liters.
Note how in both examples you start with nice round numbers. I havent cherry picked a starting point that ends up nicely in metric.
Now for the people who know metric it's fairly trivial to calculate how many liters there are in a cubic meter. A liter is defined as being one cubic decimeter. A decimeter being one step down from a meter means for cubic measurements it's a factor 1000. one cubic meter multiplied by a thousand is 1000 cubic decimeters or, equivalently, 1000 liters.
Note how in both examples you start with nice round numbers. I havent cherry picked a starting point that ends up nicely in metric.