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Here's a list of questions that get answered in this video:
What is the origin of foot?
What is the history of the inch as a unit?
What is the difference between fluid ounce and ounce?
What is an acre?
How was a mile defined as 5280 feet?
How many pounds is a ton?
Are pounds mass and pounds force the same?
Why were 0 and 100 selected on the Fahrenheit scale?
Can a horse actually generate 1 horsepower?
What is 1 ton of refrigeration?
What is a BTU (British Thermal Unit)?
What is the mass unit slug?
Why was American Wire Gauge created?
What are the units inches of water and inches of mercury?
Is Rankine the same as Fahrenheit?
What are the conversions between teaspoon, tablespoon, cup, pint, quart and gallon? - Věda a technologie
Another episode of 2 Truths & Trash will be out soon! Sorry for the delay, this video took way too long lol
How would you rate PSI?
Mann if you posted this one day later it would have been a great birthday gift
Replying to make this easier to see, I feel like fahrenheit should be ranked a bit higher bc it is more accurate as a fahrenheit/celcius ratio is close to two fahrenheit to one celcius
Happy belated birthday!
@@JaDroppingScience thanks :)))
As a European, i see this as an absolute win and I appreciate that not a single unit made it above B tier.
I blame the Brits they invented most of these units
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LMAO
@@Themasterofkeys.You obviously didn't, and even if, do you really think the algorithm will let you go? No! Noooo! Ajahahahahaha! Ajahahahahaha! Forever and ever and ever!
We still have the greatest unit of measurement usd the global unit of wealth
"it'd be cool if there was a whole unit system based around this principle" LMAO
I actually laughed out loud!!! Haha
As a Canadian this made me laugh hysterically.
Me in my mind: USE THE METRIC SYSTEM STOP USING WEIRD AND MESSY CONVERSIONS!!!
I wonder how hard school must be for Americans.
@@DragonAttack515 not as hard as these units make it sound at least. Only reason I say that is because I don't often convert from one unit to another but when I do, I would rather be using metric because imperial sucks.
I used to think the US measurement system was a complete joke. After watching this video, I still do lol. Great video thanks!
It’s not the US system. It’s the outdated British the Americans use
Wasn’t the metric system created by a French guy with anger issues who had to be in a bathtub all the time due to getting a skin disease from staying in the sewer too long?
My opinion (fact). Inches, feet, and yards are good. Yards are almost the same as meters. But ounces are total stupidity, cannot understand why most food packages list as ounces, completely confusing and useless. Inches and feet are superior to the metric system because metric doesn't have an equivalent to feet, it just has meters. And feet is a useful measurement that metric has no equivalent to. Of course there are probably some more stupidities in the imperial system, for example Pounds refers to either force or mass. If you put the wrong unit it can break some equations. But on the other hand the metric has a problem of too much uniformity, humans remember things in a non-uniform way, and metric promotes roboticism. So I wouldn't ban the imperial system but it needs some upgrades.
@@earthensciencedude meters is the goat, it’s just much better because for inches and feet: 12 inches make a feet or something like that, for meters: 10 meters are a decameter, 100 are a thing i don’t know how to say in english, 1000 are kilometers and so on, 1/10 of a meter is a decimeter, 1/100 is a centimeter, 1/1000 is a millimeter and so on, it’s just better because it’s perfect for calculations and everyday’s problem
@@idkjhgr Don't tread on me. Nobodies trying to ban Metric. I know Metric has its uses in Astronomy. But its all one sided because everyone's trying to bash Imperial and ban the Imperial system, nobody points out the good of the Imperial system. There is an advantage of not robotically adhering to a Borg system of only base 10. Imperial is part of an authentic culture and heritage, for instance an acre was about how much work oxen could do in 1 day. And Imperial offers a richer mathematics, such as Division by 2, division by 3, quarter inch, eight of an inch, half an inch etc. Metric is just zombie divide by 10 multiply by 10. I know imperial isn't perfect it has some confusing stupid stuff in it like pounds and ounces. But imperial also adds of lot of value.
When I worked in the USA as an engineer in the marine industry, I used to do all my calculations in SI units (metric) and convert to US Customary units (Imperial) at the end. All of the conversion factors you need in the US system are insane.
I worked as an exchange student from Europe back in 84. I had the same experience. They all told me it was less work to do so and less prone to mistakes.
Horsepower pisses me off the most since we already use Watts for electronics
Why do metric system users quote weights in kilograms instead of newtons?
@@m14speeder Because the kg is one of the 7 SI units. It's official.
@@astranger448 kg is a unit of mass not force even if it is official.
such a shame there isn't a simpler measurement system, it would make life so much easier.
Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!
@@pyramidteam9961 Phineas and Ferb had some special episodes that took place in different time periods, and the inventions that Phineas and Ferb’s ancestors were responsible for include the wheel, the English language, and I think also the Great Wall of China. Phineas and Ferb’s ancestors could absolutely be responsible for the metric system.
Ever heard about the metric system
@@Cinnamonsion No way they haven't
@@Cinnamonsionas a American myself it would be much easier to just use the superior metric system but people just haven’t switched over for some reason
I got my engineering degree in America. We were taught the following method when solving problems in imperial units:
1) convert given inputs to metric
2) solve normally
3) convert solution back to imperial
I think a whole Apollo rocket failed its mission due to this, its foggy but i remember something i saw somewhere here in yt about the team having people from abroad or something and the computer correctly translated a unit of measurement from imperial to metric but the value was misaligned to said rocket's hardware and lost control, thats crazy that happened because of that, ain't no way boy
@@leandrolahiteau8162close. You might be thinking about the mars mission where the rover crashed because of miscommunication between ESA and NASA
@@leandrolahiteau8162I think a MARS mission
@@leandrolahiteau8162 This was Mars climate observer in 1999 and the idiots were Lockheed Martin
@@leandrolahiteau8162 i feel like i just had a stroke after reading that
The fact that he was practically dissing the entire system was hilarious
not enough though. I mean non of these are anything other than F tier.
With miles he did not even Mention that there are other length called miles and this is the stupid one.
It’s not the units that are the problem, it’s the fact that they don’t relate to each other. In the SI system all units derive from basic units for time, mass, length, charge, etc. and all go up in factors of 10^3, so it aligns with our decimal number system.
@@Tailspin80 that is one problem. The other big one is, that for all of these Units there are countless other units with the same names, but slightly different meanings.
Well there is nothing not to dis about it, so
@@MusikCassette True. US gallon vs Imperial gallon being one.
I bake a lot. I'm from Europe and as any respectable baker I use a scale on a daily basis. Sometimes I base my recipes on American ones, and the most mind-boggling measurement I've ever seen was cups of cold butter. Idk how anyone would ever think of measuring solid butter that way, but I'm guessing their baked goods were hardly any good anyway so accurate measurements were the least of their concerns. Just so you know, professional bakers weight their ingredients with a scale, even if they're based in the US, and it's a waste of time, money and water to measure your ingredients by volume. You gotta wash the utensils afterwards so just buy a freaking scale.
The sticks of butter come marked. You cut off what you need. I was also taught that you can fill a 2 cup glass measurig cup with one cup of cold water and submerge butter or shortning in it until the level gets to two cups.
Well, besides that "professional" butter sticks in Europe are marked too, the standard 250gr package divided into five 50gr stripes AKA sticks isn’t really rocket science and can easily eyeballed.
@agn855 A cup of butter is less than 250g. Your arrogance in asserting that their complaints are unfounded is fallacious.
Literally don't know what you're talking about. Are you talking about marking on the butter sticks? Because it's simple to use. Sure weighing stuff is nice but if your recipe is so sensitive that 1 gram off ruins it its not a good recipe. I'm not busting out the scale for 1/4 tsp of nutmeg. Unless I'm baking baking volume works just fine
@aceystar1478 we don't have butter sticks in Europe. Our butter is 250g, divided into 50g increments. A cup is 220g. That's enough for baking to be noticeably charged.
The buildup to cooking measurements saying they're all pretty intuitive only to say "I hate them all, F Tier" was hilarious
Yeah, that's why I gave this video an F. It's just stupid, baseless, and irrational. Inconsistent and illogical.
They are not intuitive at all... I mean, theoretically yes, but there's so many spoon and cup sizes that it's a hassle dealing with it.
When I cook I simply use a scale and everything is perfectly balanced.
@@mateusfccp I guess it matters what you grew up with, but I don't find it to be difficult. Measuring spoons and cups are easy to deal with. And with very small quantities -- like for spices -- measuring spoons are the only way to go. Scales can't register fractions of grams.
Internet chef Adam Ragusea did a good video on this topic and explains why he prefers to cook by volume rather than weight: czcams.com/video/04ID_Qdm1Q8/video.html
@@mateusfccp it’s just a shame that so much of video included the interesting history behind the origins of the measurements but then entirely skipped how the cooking measurements played a great deal in winning world war 1
@@mateusfccpAs all things should be.
There are three things you can watch forever: fire burning, water falling and someone roasting the imperial system.
This video is a roasting of the US customary system, which is very similar to the imperial system but different in arbitrary ways
As if the units weren't bad enough, you also have to specify which one you're using for certain units
US Customary system
@@TheRealEtaoinShrdluThat doesn't change the fact that it's horrendous. It's also fun to call it Imperial Units so you get all patriots mad lol
@pappi8338 I don't get mad at all, I'm just left confused why you seem to care so much about what I want to define as 1 of something. I grew up with both systems and my entire life I've heard that metric is better. Most of the time I still use US customary units out of convenience. All of the reasons that "metric is better" kind of disappear when I want to measure something and I don't have a meter stick with me but I do have my foot with me. :)
@@shannonroberts5080 there are three things that are infinite: the universe, human stupidity, and SI fans claiming it is universally superior.
What is even crazier is that back in the old days, every European country - often even different cities in the same country - had their OWN version of the foot and inch, and other units. It was always 12 inches to the foot, but the length of a foot varied by up to 10cm! The shortest was around 25cm while the largest "foot" was over 35cm. It just so happens that America adopted what was the British Standard at the time.
This variance, combined with the growth of industrialization is, I suspect, part of the reason Europe embraced the metric system so quickly and thoroughly. It would be VERY difficult to have mass production when, say, ½" bolts from a factory in Hamburg are a totally different size from the ½" threading press you got from Berlin, and neither match the ½" nuts you ordered from Dresden.
Meanwhile, the US had settled on the UK Imperial standards throughout, and its industrial revolution was much more self-sufficient and self-contained. Without a pressing need for a new unifying standard, there was little incentive for US industry to convert to a new system.
This is my hypothesis, anyway.
Germany went metric the year after it was finally created in 1871. It was rather late to the party, but then again, it didn't exist before 1871, and parts of what became Germany went metric before that.
As to the US and their bastard version of imperial: two factors that play a big role (in addition to what you and others said, industrial laziness and inertia surely are important contributors) are American Exceptionalism and Tradition; the US is so young, they cherish every tiny little tradition they do have, even when they routinely claim to want to abolish one, like, for instance, the Electoral College.
Napoleon imposed the metric system (created in France) in France and conquered lands (and its civil code still used by many countries), the old units came back after his loss but still it was a standardized unit in every sectors which help in trades and science...so it took over the old units which varied from places to places, easier to have the same units in rotterdam and Madrid for trades and industries.
I recommand to check the channel Machine Thinking.
There are top quality videos on thr history of precision manufacturing.
And how the "Swedish Metric Inch" for US export of precision measurement tools was adopted by Ford and forced on the US auto industry. And then during WW2, the US auto industry forced it in all war related companies. It's only after WW2 that the entire US adopted it.
They are Just stunborn, the British and even nasa are using the metric sistem
Loved the Thou "if only there was a measurement system that used this principle"
Metric system: S-Tier
SI system, not metric
@@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu they are synonymous, and we need to call it Metric sometimes so that US people understand what we are talking about. "SI unit" is not an intelligible expression overseas.
@@ZopcsakFerisome metric units are not SI. Calories or electroc-volts for example.
@ZopcsakFeri You are correct. The first place I heard the term "SI Unit" was in my high school chemistry class; chemistry was an optional class. That was on one day, and we called them metric units after that one day in class. In college I hear SI units a little more frequently but metric is still preferred in America.
@@johnettipio America tends to use calories for chemical energy. They are metric but not SI
as someone who grew up with metric and more importantly Celsius, hearing someone talk about temperature and saying "60 degrees" - "100 degrees" gives me a whiplash until i remember Fahrenheit exists
Growing up on Fahrenheit, celsius still confuses me. I'm just used to gauging it based on 100 and not between 0 and 40. I use it for calculations all the time but in terms of human comfort it makes zero sense unless you grew up with it. I get our measurements are dumb but Fahrenheit is the one I can make the most sense with
Fahrenheit imo is better to use for daily life. 98 degrees is good. 100 is fever. 104 is emergency room. 105 your body stops regulating temperature. But science, Celsius is better
@@aceystar1478 no because its easyer to calculate science and it makes no sense to have 2
@tombraendle7156 celsius does not make science easier. Kelvin and rankine do. We only use celsius because it's already integrated into your other units if Fahrenheit hadve been used it would all be the same
@@aceystar1478 Having the triple point of water being at 0 degrees does kinda make a difference
Personally, I use "Handfulls" for volume; "Bloody Freezin'" to "Effin' swelterin'" for temperature; and "About This Much" for length.
Works for me! 😎👍
America:
"Write that down!"
please build a rocket, carpet a floor, bake bread, check for a fever etc.
@@stm7810
Build a rocket? : Paper fins, Coca Cola in a bottle, an aspirin and quick reactions are all that's needed.
Carpet a floor? : Get a bit of carpet slightly bigger than the floor, put the carpet on the floor and cut off the bits you don't want.
Check for fever? : Place hand on forehead and if it feels "Effin Swelterin" it's a fever and if it feels "Bloody Freezin" it's a chill.
Etc., etc., etc. 😎👍
@@stm7810 If you want a more powerful rocket, you could always invest in a full acetylene cylinder and knock the valve off with a sledge hammer BUT :-
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. 🤯>🤕
About yay high
"A yard is no where near the size of an average yard." Pure gold!
Just to make things awkward, when Australia converted to the Metric system it was decreed that the tablespoon would be 20ml or four teaspoons unlike the 15ml measure used elsewhere.
As someone who grew up with the international unit system, every single unit in this video and its logic made me rage
lmao cope commie
The spoons and cup are actually pretty handy when cooking. I live in an metric country, but imperial units for homecooking is agodsend for trying out recipes quickly and lessening dishes.
It quickly shows approximates. Add 2 tablespoon of honey is much easier to visualize vs add 40ml of honey or 50 grams of honey is hard.
I know Regular eating tablespoon are smaller than measuring table spoons but thats kay because I can always add ingredients to what im cooking after a quick taste.
The quarts/pint/gallon suck though.
@@jakkankput horsepower and food measurements aside, the others suck
Fahrenheit is a good way to measure temperature outside of scientific settings.
@@Gtx-ij9ffonly if you’re used to it
Most people: Rules of Thumb are supposed to be easy.
American electricians: „The 39th root of 92 is approximately 2 if you raise it to the power of 6“
Of or if?
Believe me, I was ready for *some* shit, but I was not ready for *that* shit!
Put it into Desmos: It actually ends up being approximately just 1. Still pretty cool! 92^(1/36)^6
And even then I don't understand why they didn't just simplify the power to (92)^(2/13)
The best thing about fahrenheit is that you can count how many chirps a cricket makes in 14 seconds, add 40, and that's the temperature.
you know it's a chilly day when the cricket chirps -20 times
At school in the early 60s we had whole maths exercise books devoted to calculations in poles, perches, rods, fathoms, reams, scores, dozens, leagues, as well as the more obvious inches, feet, yards, miles and so on. No calculators of course, just log tables and slide rules. Big relief when taught the SI / MKS system in physics 10 years later and calculators arrived.
This sounds like the teacher at the beginning of a Brick in the Wall… “an acre is an area of land whose length is 1 furlong and whose width is 1 chain”
I worked in Saudi Arabia for a long time. We got a new employee who was American. He needed a bathroom scale and was happy to see that the digital scale he bought had a switch to change between metric and imperial. The next day at work he asked, "What's a stone?"
This was my question too,when I got my new bathroom scale in Hungary. I soon found the switch.
A stone is the thing you stumble upon because you were trying to measure some distance by looking at your feet while walking. "Pound" is the noise you make when you fall. Then you're free to get your blood back in spoons. Tablespoons are better because you finish your work three times faster than with teaspoons. It all makes perfect sense.
A stone is a really weird unit of weight measurement.
@@RufianEmbozadoif you manage to trip while looking down, you’ve got some serious problems
It is about 6.3kgs. Im from Eastern Europe but live in the UK. Here it's commonly used, but as far as I can tell almost exclusively to measure bodyweight.
this video is gonna have to go in F for forgetting about the most important american unit, the football field
Its a metric measurement. 100 meters is a football field.
@@deltalima6703 shhhhh they dont know that
@@deltalima6703an American football field is 109meters
@@antonyslaughter because ofcourse it is
But what about bald eagles per glazed doughnut?
What I really hate about the cooking measurements is that all those measurements are really hard to measure exactly unless you're actually using the device the unit is named after.
And converting them to exact and universal measurements like grams or liters is difficult, because the conversion ratio is dependent on the ingredient.
Here's an example (using "kitchen-grade accuracy"):
1 tbsp of flour is around 8 grams.
1 tbsp of water is 15 grams (aka 15 ml, g = ml for water).
1 tbsp of honey is 21 grams.
So if a recipe is using imperial units and asks you to add "2 tablespoons of honey", you actually have to use a tablespoon, squeeze the honey on there before mixing it in, making another piece of equipment dirty, and because honey is sticky, you can't really reset your measuring device to a neutral "0" (i.e. empty the spoon for the second scoop).
With "40g" on the other hand, you can simply tare the scale, and then squeeze the honey directly into the mixing bowl until it says "40g". So much simpler, cleaner, and more accurate.
Yes. It's just that in the past we didn't have kitchen scales so had to use sth else.
I have never seen anyone use a kitchen scale in the US. Nor have I ever seen a US cookbook which gave the weight of ingredients other than meat and pasta.
No, we had kichen scales, they just weren't digital. @@LibraryofAcousticMagic3240
You have sold me. I'm getting a kitchen scale.
and if you squeeze too hard, how do you get the excess honey out? and note that you are still using a device to measure.
as for the honey, fill your measuring spoon, wipe it out with the stirring tool, fill it again. it's not rocket science.
7:12: Unfortunately, blood pressure is measured in mmHg, not inches Hg.
As someone who doesn't use the US units system i completely agree, apart from the fact that all of them were supposed to go in F
Fair enough haha
As someone who does use US units, I agree. Except Fahrenheit. I like that it's more granular than Celsius.
Nah Fahrenheit is definetly not F tier. Its obvously FF. The "F*ck Fahrenheit" tier.
tbf, fahrenheit isnt THAT bad. i mean it is, but speaking from what my friends told me, you get used to it. It seems a bit more convenient to use in day-to-day life according to them. Therefore, it should be in E tier. right between D and F
@@StarfoxHUNFahrenheit is better than Celsius for daily use
To be honest, I do admire Americans, being able to use such an inconsistent measurement system with ease is remarkable.
Edit: based on some of the replies it seems that my assumption is wrong, I assumed Americans used the imperial system with eases because, well, they've been using it since birth, something you're used to should be easy for you. In that regard I'll make a rectification: I do admire the Americans persistence to use an inconsistent measurement system despite having the option to switch to a consistent one.
Issue is we don’t use it with ease
If we used it with ease there would be one more lander on mars
It does mean we are good with fractions.
@@Gtx-ij9ff^
@@bromanned7069a lot of us do though, and I can guess a 12 inch measurement within 1/2 and inch, usually closer. Personally I love the imperial system but I know I'm one of very few people who actually likes the imperial system
Thing about teaspoon and tablespoon in Germany is they refer to the literal implements. Not since separate special measuring spoon.
If i need a teaspoon of a spice, I'll grab a literal teaspoon from my cutlery and just accept that teaspoons are not standardised in size because I'm already using an inaccurate way of measuring things
Teaspoon, tablespoon and cup are excelent measures if you don't have a scale to weigh everything. The only problem with them is that, just like every other Imperial form of measurement, it varies a lot
Why do you mean when you say they vary a lot? A teaspoon is not a teaspoon from a drawer, it is a special spoon you buy. They come in a set.
then again, if you're in a shop to buy a set of special teaspoons, you might just as well instead invest in a scale@@david672orford
@@david672orford Okay, then it explains everything. I have 2 types of teaspoons, with one of them being 30%-40% larger than the other, and I have many different cups with the largest being ~400ml and smallest ~200ml. Recipes with cups and spoons always confused me, so I looked for ones using grams, and it was today when I found out that there is something that measures those in standard cups and spoons
This is great.
The only thing more confusing than the American units of measurement is the Canadian version.
We're technically metric, but good luck finding a tape measure that isn't in inches. For cooking, we use cups, tsp and tbsp, but also ml and litres. We drive in km/h but measure power in hp.
Great system right?
Also we use both day month year and month day year when writing dates
everyone uses hp to measure power
It's the same in Europe, except for the tape measure part. Ours usually have both inches and centimeters or just centimeters
@@sintenklaasthat's literally only car nerds
@@PUNROTUTORIALSaboyou actually have to look for any mesuring tool in inches or any imperial unit
At least that's the case in Germany
A few things though are always in inches for some reason
Like screen sizes and bicycle tires
In Sweden, *the* cookbook for generations was "Our Cookbook", which was published alongside the launch of a standardized set of kitchen measures. The teaspoon was standardized at 5ml and the tablespoon at 15ml, and the book used half or full deciliters for most other measurements. So in Sweden, we do use teaspoons and tablespoons, but not cups, and those are standardized to specific metric measurements.
Luckily the table spoon measures I’ve got in my home have their liter conversion engraved haha
1dL is 5/12 of a cup , 0.5dL is 5/24 of a cup (1 cup is 240mL)
Even in France, home of metric system, we still use teaspoon/tablespoon for cooking.
The only difference is that we NEVER use them for critical ingredients, but only for side/preference-related things... For example, "Fry it in a tablespoon oil", "Add a teaspoon of XXXX flavor", "Add one to three tablespoon of sugar according to your preferences", and so on. And, in fact, we never use a real spoon to "measure" that, we add the approximative quantity because it IS approximative.
For everything else, metric system is the one and only rule, but there is also no house without proper measurement tools in the kitchen (precision scale and measuring glass mostly), and/or ingredients sold in convenient packaging (100g, 250g, 500g, 1 kg). And yeah, there is recipes specifying "add 5 ml of oil", "add 15 ml of water" when it NEEDS to be precise.
Unfortenally rest of the world don't use standard teaspoons and table spoons as we do in Sweden, it's actually very convenient. The only anoyance is that tablespoons being 15 ml won't fit evenly in a deciliter. 50 ml is the same as 3 tablespoons and a teaspoon so rounding up to 50 ml is usually fine if you are trippling a recipe. Using a scale is slow compared to mesuring cups, for example pancakes: 6 decliters milk, 3 dl milk, 3 dl flour and a teaspoon of salt is a very easy recipe to remember and messure.
@@SkepticalCaveman actually reading the comments I came to the conclusion that at least all Europe may still have this use. In Italy we also use pints (just for beers tho) (I don't think it's just Italy)
As a chemical engineering graduate, having to deal with these atrocities was like half the difficulty of the degree.
I feel your pain. Use SI and then convert back was always my solution 😅
I love how you made a video absolutely roasting the imperial system that was also one of the most comprehensive explanations of it that I've seen! Great work!!
As a European, I have a soft spot for teaspoons and tablespoons, and we use it a lot when cooking. A teaspoon is 5 ml, a tablespoon is 15 ml.
Depends on where in Europe you live and if there's forced standardization for tea/table spoons. I can look into my kitchen drawers and find 4 different size teaspoons and like 6 different size tablespoons. So if I find a recipe that only gives ingredient amounts in tea/table spoons I'll just chalk the author up as an idiot and ignore it's existence.
@@Jack_Rakan You can buy measuring spoons in IKEA and I'd assume more places which come with a standard set of tea- and tablespoons (which are standardized to 5 and 15 ml, respectively)
@@TheMrMe1 Yeah, no thanks, I'm not going out of my way to buy something I don't need just because some ass-backwards idiots don't want to use a logical system over their retarded one, and use that for cooking recipes.
@@TheMrMe1or you know, just specify what amount it is. Imagine a guide giving lengths where to mix in metric foot (30 cm) and metre. That's what it is having a recipe that gives me units in litre and spoons. We shouldn't have a different name for a unit like this.
Also tablespoons are 20 ml in Australia, so international recipes is a mess.
@@Jack_Rakan Cooking measures use measuring spoons, not whatever random spoons you find in your cutlery drawer. Although even there there's a difference: an international teaspoon is 5ml (giving a tablespoon of 15ml, except in Australia where it's 20 for some reason), but an American teaspoon is actually slightly less than 4.93 ml
The fact that you need to create a unit to define when you divide 1 by 1 should tell you everything you need to know about the US customary units
Oh, you mean like the Coulomb?
@@pa28cfiCharge isnt a Fundamental Quantity. Current is. So it makes sense that Coulomb would be defined in terms of Currwnt and Time.
Also Curr. and Charge are different, versatile, and widely used enough that they should have their own seperate units.
Ij terms of Slugs on the other hand there is no such reasoning or defence. Mass is possibly the most fundamental and basic quantity out there. And if you still need to define it in terms of one hyper specific unit acting on another hyperspecific unit, then yeah idl what to say after that.
Hope this helped clear things up 😊❤
Some of these (BTU, Slug, Rankine, Thou) are metric units redefined with imperial units instead. A calorie is the energy needed to raise one litre of water by one degree C, exactly like the BTU's "energy needed to raise one pound by one degree F".
Dude a Newton is defined by multiplying 1 by 1; it’s not any better
@@yaakovborovoi5905 but thing is you can just between those easily, that 1 gram takes up 1 cc of space is 1mL and the same mass as a mole of hydrogen.
We should make units dependent on week days and weather. For example 1 sunny Monday hour is the same as 2 1/3 rainy Sunday hours but also the same as 3 4/7 sunny Sunday hours. 1 Monday hour has 78 minutes each of 85 seconds while 1 Sunday hour has 49 minutes each of 57 seconds.
WHAT
metric time: 10 seconds in a minute, 10 minutes in an hour, 10 hours in a day, 10 days in a week, 10 weeks in a month, and 10 months in a year. never mind that it will have no relation to sunrise and sunset, or when it snows, it will be divisible by ten, so it will be superior.
When I was an exchange student back in 2015 in New Hampshire I made up a theory with a Canadian guy and we thought that if the US stopped using feet as a measurement it would reduced significantly the foot fetish the US has. I hope they'll do it some day
Question:
Is a foot measured with or without the shoe, because we all know Americans never take their shoes off.
@@JH-lo9ut Dunno, another reason to stop using this kind of measurement
British: force their colonies to use the imperial system
Also British: Look at these absolute BUFFOONS using INCHES
Also British: This is Timothy. He weighs 5 stones, 3 cloves of garlic, and a tod.
As opposed to being 28 bananas tall in America.
Worked in Australia during the pre decimal days. Had to learn to count money in Pence, Hapenneys, Thrupence, Shillings. Florins,
Thrupppence, so on. Had to add columns of coins divided by 12 and 20. Took a bit to get used to then came change over to decimal with two legal currencies running side by side for a time. Ran into the same thing in Ireland and Germany with the Euro conversion.
Let's also not forget the old British money system. That scale to weigh Timothy cost 1 pound, 3 shillings, 2 pence
Many (older) Brits still use imperial measures in casual day-to-day life. But we switch to metric when precision is important. And speed limits are still in miles per hour...
Now, when US are no longer forced to use those stupid British units, it's time to change to metric, right? Right?..
Another less-known unit is used when manufacutring PCBs in electronics: The height of copper in a layer is measured in Oz (mass). The reason is that you assume the mass of copper to be spread over a square foot, resulting in a height of copper. Mass is used to describe a height. S E R I O U S L Y.
Paper is a bit similar.
Galvanized steel (zinc plated) is the same, but in metric: height is in grams per square meter
similar to yards suddenly being a volume of dirt or similar material
look at how AWG is measured. Pulling a piece of copper from a certain length to another certain length, and having your unit of measurement be how often it has been pulled by that much.
Sounds like shotgun gauges. How many balls the diametr of the barrel you can make out of a pound of lead. Basically mass is used to measure distance (diameter).
Thanks for putting this tier list together, as a European I did not know about the slug. And then there's Grain, Hundredweight, Stone, Furlong, Bushel, Foot-Pound, etc etc. You can't blame the US for all of this, most of this stuff goes waaaay back. I like the way some of these measurements correlate through common objects. For example, a small scale is called a troi, where 1 troy ounce (unica, half a pound) is 480 grains barley or 640 grains wheat, which is also approx 1 apothecary ounce. The carat (not karat) is one carob seed (ceratonia siliqua) where 24 carat (a siliquae) is a solidus, a gold coin weighing approx 1/72 of a pound.
You can't blame The US for the fact that these measurements got invented, but you can blame the US for still using them.
@@davel4708we don’t, they are defined but non of these are used in common language
I'm American and I didn't know about the slug, either.
One thing about most of these units is they are practical for everyday use. This coming from a Canadian that is fluent in both measures. Here's a good example. You could fairly accurately calculate in your head how much force you would need to apply on a bicycle pump to fill your bike tire if you know the surface area of the pump piston. Example 1 sq/in piston takes 30lb to generate 30psi. How many kg does it take to generate 206843 pascals on a 0.000645sqm piston?
Also temperature. Where do I see temperature 99% of the time? My weather app, my thermostat, my stove, and my fridge. For weather/thermostat use it's just more intuitive and it's more precise without having to go into fractions of a degree. For cooking, no one cares what the boiling point of water is. They just boil water. Also, no one cares what the freezing point of water is because the rest of your food doesn't freeze at that point. Instead we set freezers to -18°c which is 0°f.
@McP1mpin I disagree it's nice to see the temp of your fridge and freezer and the outside temp in Celsius, because it's so related to water. I also wish we used Celsius with our stove but we don't because of the US and because old recipes are written in F. You only argue that because you are used to it. When you get familiar and use both, Fahrenheit is crap.
Most people don't even know what the surface area of their pump is
My pump has a barometer so I don't have to calculate anything when filling my bike tires
And if I have to use a pump without a barometer, then I just pinch the tire until the pressure is good enough
This everyday stuff should be intuitive and don't require doing any calculation, that's why it's called "everyday stuff" and not "quantum physics"
@@ColCurtis id much rather look at a fridge that tells me its 40F than fucking 4.44C lol. In cooking F is generally better as well since its more accurate. A steak needs to be rested after hitting 130F internal, or again, 54.44C. its just better for general use temps. yes it depends on what you grew up with but there is a reason for it.
US Measurement System is kinda weird. First of all, I've been using this system my entire life. The moment I started doing research in college everything switched over to the metric system. For example, if I'm working on a project that will be published specifically to a group of americans, I must use "american units" (that is what my advisor calls it), but if its being published to a journal, it must be in metric units. To make it even stranger, the default measurement units in most geographic information systems (which are mostly american made) are programmed in metric units and it confuses a lot of students who are using these systems for the first time.
As someone not in America, watching and reading educational content and shows also confused me alot for using those systems, it straight up build no knowledge and framework about how strong a tiger bite is or how fast a baseball can be thrown, such a big waste to everybody's time
They brought this confusion to the hospital. Surgical needles and wires are also have an inverted measurement.
The teaspoon and tablespoon measurements are probably the most useful if you have nothing in your kitchen to measure small quantities with, and in cooking a little bit too much sugar or salt for example wouldn't be all that bad, however if you're asked to put in one eighth of a teaspoon of a very powerful spice, you're better off using your hand instead.
Recipes using volumetric measures like cups and spoons are scaleable. As a result, as long as you are consistent in the ratios it does not matter what base volume you use, you could use buckets and half buckets for catering purposes and it would still be following the recipe.
@@martinconnelly1473 yes but if you instead used a scale and a cup with measurements in Metric .... You could use exactly the same amount of ingredients every single time you make the same thing, nobody eats the same thing everyday so it's only natural to forget the amount you used last time if you're using spoons and teaspoons and it might actually affect the taste, being inconsistent while cooking is bad, this is how you end up with inedible stuff on your plate, that being said you really don't have to he all that accurate if you're just cooking for yourself, nobody's gonna judge you and say "it's not as tasty as last time..."
@@martinconnelly1473 That doesn't work with teaspoons and measuring in volumes is a stupid idea anyway, despite the differences at certain temperatures, try measuring a cup of Butter. Or replacing normal sugar/salt with finer or coarser grained one.
You better have something to measure if you want to cook !
Not every spoon are the same size , and inside the same spoon you can put Different measurement of product !
Just buy ONE KITCHEN SCALE , then you can measure every thing .
1/2 a teaspoon , a 1/4 cup , God damn that's horrible when you wanna cook .
That doesnt make any sense , It belongs in the "Z" tiers .
@@outdooropaholger9998two sticks. Butter here comes in eight tablespoon (half cup$ sticks.
Sidenote: Tsps, Tbsps, and Cups are used in recipes in Europe as well, but they are standardized to 5ml, 15ml, and 250ml respectively.
I grew up in probably the only generation of Canadian education that's likely to ever exist where they taught Imperial and Metric right alongside each other, and most of our measuring tools had readings for both systems. While most official and scientific measurements were metric, many of the adults in my life still used imperial to describe things. As a result, I'm essentially "bilingual" when it comes to measurements, so if I hear one, I can generally interpret it into the form that I am most comfortable with, and that makes the most sense given the context.
For example, I convert Fahrenheit readings into Celsius. I prefer Imperial measurements (inches and feet) for short distances and kilometers for long distances. I cook exclusively in Imperial (including baking), but I like my beverages and other liquids measured in liters, UNLESS I'm using it to cook. Yes, I'm aware it makes no sense to switch between referring to water as 2 Cups or 500mL (approximate) depending on whether or not I am cooking or just drinking it, but I don't care!
I think the whole debate is a little over-hated anyway, and I think there would be a greater net benefit to all if we decided to learn to interpret and convert back and forth, rather than discard and forget.
As an American who started learning wiring at the age of 5 or so using those "snap circuit" things, I learned AWG at like 8 years old and was very confused by the inverse proportionality of it.
It reminds me of paper sizes where a5 is half the size of a4, a6 is half the size of a5 etc, so I'm inclined to give it a pass.
It's not really an inverse proportionality. It is a negative logarithmic scale.
Incremental differences in gauge sizes, are multiplicative changes in the size of the wire.
@@carultch You know what I meant to say
Gauge is a weird unit in general, it’s the same deal with shotguns. A 12 gauge is bigger than a 20 gauge, and this is used all over the world
Gotta love those snap electronic kits!
8:12
So... Rankine is just copying Kelvin? Why? Just use Kelvin if you want 0 to be absolute zero. Kelvin is also fully linear in terms of energy in gas molecules.
So this is just a bad american knockoff of Kelvin I suppose?
PS: Just googled it and the Rankine was created 11 years after the Kelvin, so it's likely just someone going:
"Damn, this smart dude proved there's a lowest possibly temperature. Now I can just steal that and then use the arbitrary scale of Fahrenheit instead and people will think I'm smart :)"
Cups and spoons work well enough in cooking where the margin of error is quite loose, however when you start to bake it all falls appart.
another absolutely stunning unit of measurement is a barrel. there are several different barrel units depending on what you’re using it for dry things: you have several different barrels depending on what the dry good is. cranberries get their own barrel unit. and then you have liquid barrels which also different and then you have barrels as used by the oil industry. the US loves complicated measurements.
As a former fridge and air con technician it warms my cold heart (pun intended), that ton of refrigeration is included on this list. For the freedom unit impaired it's equal to about 3.5kW of cooling capacity.
And staying close to my former trade I'd like to add one more unit: grains. Which is used to measure absolute humidity in air conditioning. Because of course it is, it just makes sense (1 grain is 1/7000th of a pound by the way).
Ah, yes.
But of course.
Elementar, really.
With freedom units you mean the units that the empire forced upon its colonies?
You were formerly a fridge? 😬
1/7000th of a pound doesn't sound a lot of value. It's even much less than a cent. Who would use such thing?!
Am I wrong or are grains used for gunpowder measurement as well?
The story I heard about Fahrenheit was that 0F was the temperature of brine (equal parts ice and salt, and the dissolution of salt is endothermic and the brine has a lower freezing point), while the maximum was the boiling point of brine (this doesn't quite check out, since saturated brine boils at about 228F). THEN because he had to make evenly spaced marks, and repeated division by 2 is easy, he assigned the max temperature 256F and then divided the scale 8 times (2^8 = 256).
As an European and electronics engineer working with and us company, I hate gauges SO FRICKING MUCH. Even more so as a person with stretched ears because someone thought using gauges as a measurement for ear plugs is a great idea even though you need like half millimeters to a millimeter increments.
I kinda like Fahrenheit, because 0 F is about how cold usually winters are here and 100 F is a temperature of a very hot summer.
As an engineer my absolute favorite imperial unit is kip - which stands for kilopound-force over square inch. Yes, this is an actual unit in common use.
And a pint has an advantage. In the metric side of the world, a large beer is usually 0.5L, which is less than a pint. So you get more beer.
I would like to point out that you are using English Imperial Pints not US customary pints which are smaller at 0.47 pints per litre. No source of confusion there then 🤥
@@martinconnelly1473 good point! UK pint is where you get more beer, not with the US pint though!
The Imperial pint is actually a bit of a screw-up, to be honest. When Parliament revised the measures in the 1820s they (smartly) set the definition of a fluid ounce such that that quantity of water weighed an ounce. Had they stopped there, it would have followed that a pint of water would weigh a pound as there were formally 16 ounces to both the pint and the pound. But oh no, they had to sort-of half-assedly get on the decimal bandwagon and set things such that an Imperial gallon of water would weigh 10 pounds and then backed that out through the rest of the units so we ended up with bonkers 20 ounce pints, pints that are also 2½ cups rather than the 2 cups they are in the US.
That’s kpsi, one Kip per square inch. A kip is a thousand pounds of force.
Why would anyone drink beer when their girlfriends piss is free and tastes slightly less bad?
A funny thing is, that we use a few units with similar names in Germany as well, but with different definitions: One German pound is exactly half of a kilogram. A German tablespoon (Esslöffel) is a very unprecise measurement, were you just get a regular spoon and use whatever size it has. Just slightly above not measuring at all, so you have at least some consistency. The same for tea spoons (Teelöffel). German horse power (Pferdestärke) is also defined differently using metric values and a horse. This is still used to advertise cars, because people are used to them.
The German mile (7532,5m) (also known as the Prussian mile) hasn't been used for centuries. The same for the German geographical mile (7420,44m) (1/15 of a equatorial degree). The last German mile, that was used, was exactly 7500m=7,5km. Fun fact: In Europe the different definitions of miles ranged from 1,5km up to 11km.
Imperial units differ between Britain and America.
long ton, metric ton, short ton, ....
Diversity makes life exciting!
I've never even heard of the german mile while living my whole life in germany
"Fun fact: In Europe the different definitions of miles ranged from 1,5km up to 11km."
Nope, the Dutch mile (1816-1870) was 1 km by definition.
@@ThW5 Dutch stepping short?
@@peterebel7899 Not really, the Netherlands were rather early with going fully metric, but re-used old names for the new units, so the kilometer became the "mijl", the centimeter "duim", the kilogram "pond", "aas" for miligram and so on... Most of those uses have been forgotten but some, especially "ons" for hectogram and "bunder" for hectare are still used somewhat.
Small correction: Twip is not 1/1440 inch, it is 1/1440 of a logical inch. It is used for screen measurements, where the screen size isn't necessarily known by the computer, so it makes an assumption of how many pixels there are in an inch, and from there, derives how large the screen area is in twips. Yep, it is that crazy.
as an American i can confirm we use none of these on the daily but rather compare our object/volume/temperature to whatever is closest to us or something universally American, such as a football field or the Holstein cow
I love you calling the Holstein cow universally American. :D
Also, wasn't the unit for the size of sinkholes "washing machines"?
OMG so based, I'm studying for a fluid mechanics midterm in CANADA where we use BOTH imperial and metric (kill me). I have had to use almost all of these in my calculation (including the loathsome slugs) and I can confirm, they're all F tier
come to europe, we have cookies. But for real im sory
@ibag3621 which country do you recommend? I'm planning on doing an exchange program/year abroad
Slugs are far superior to lbm and i shall die on this hill
@@Zoltan00 For engineering? Germany of course.
But you can just make a list: unit*factor=metric unit to replace in equations.
I'm glad I live in a metric using nation. For the record, US imperial measurements are now based off of a conversation from metric system. IE 1 inch is 25.4 millimetres and 1 foot is 305 millimetres :-)
Wrong on the foot. The foot, being defined as 12 inches, is of course 304.8 mm.
@@JurgenErhardDoes it matter? The US Measurement System is shit either way
the US purposefully kept its measurement system so that other countries wouldn't get too jealous of the US, since we're better at everything else
I think the imperial volume measurements in cooking (teaspoon, tablespoon, cup, etc) are really nice! They cover a wide range of volumes and are subdivided in base 16 or base 12 which makes them easier to halve or quarter.
Yeah but is it a big cup or a small cup?
US Customary, not Imperial
@@L233233 it is an 8 fluid ounce cup.
same with feet and inches. you can divide a foot by 2, 3, 4, and 6. you can divide a meter by 2, and 5.
i can personally work in any measurement system provided its consistent throughout the project. However i will almost never intuitively move to metric because inches and feet feel more natural than centimeters and meters since they are too small and too big respectively. dont even say it cuz i know not a soul uses decimeters Also as mentioned, Fahrenheit is a more digestible form of temperature for a human, however i almost always think in Celsius for technology since that's usually how its read out and makes more sense in that context since 100 C is usually the max allowed temp. It'd be nice if we made 1 yard = 1 meter but then a few other measurements would need to change with them such as minute of angle.
3:06 There are currently 3 different tons used in the USA.
There is the short ton of 2000lbs which everybody uses, the metric ton which is used in food production like the annual wheat harvest and the long ton of 2240lbs which is used by the navy to measure the size of ships.
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Hopefully I don't disappoint you haha
I had the joy of starting with bushels pecks rods poles perchs (??) chains furlongs etc at primary school. Then less archaic Imperial units at lower secondary school ... changing to cgs then mks and finally the sanity of SI by 'O' levels. After that it was SI all the way through 'A' levels and Mechanical Engineering 😊
Once we asked our Physics teacher what units we should use in our homework ... he said whichever we want to ... so we used Astronomic units, Earth weights and Eons.
Us measurements are usually worse I will admit, but farenheit has so much more freedom than celsius that it’s honestly just better than celsius.
Also for anyone wondering why we don’t switch, basically the entire us uses it so getting everyone to switch would be too difficult and just try switching to imperial and you’ll see how hard it is to switch from one measurement system to another.
The teaspoon and tablespoon are the only units that I like in all units of freedom. They are only the ones that work better than the metric system when you're adding seasoning to whatever you're making.
I still prefer scaling, as there's really no consistency in spoon sizes...
@@mateusfccp nah, using spoons is easier to clean up, easier to use, granular enough to be accurate, but general enough to be multipurpose. British bakers who have cooked with U(SA)nits before know it’s much easier but will never admit it. Similar to how I will never admit a kilometer makes more sense than a mile even tho it does (it doesn’t)
@@memyselfandi4109 yeah but winging it works pretty good too if the granularity of spoons is enough.
There are "spoons" in european cooking recipes too sometimes, but they actually refer to the real tea spoons and table spoons. And are known to be a rough estimation.
That said, i rarely cook something big enough to need spoons for the seasoning.
The amounts of seasoning i use are more in the ballpark of a "knifetip" or what the english language calls "pinch" or "dash". So not really something one would measure but guestimate.
@@memyselfandi4109imagine using miles lmaooo
As I often tell people, I am an 🇺🇲American🇺🇲, and therefore free to use any units I see fit. So I use SI/metric units.
Canadian here
God I hate Fahrenheit. Celsius just makes more sense like the only time that Celsius and Fahrenheit match is when it’s -40° outside.
I know the entire video was in jest, but some things that i feel deserve context:
Teaspoons and table spoons: a typical spoon that you eat with holds a teaspoon. A typical "large spoon" used for serving food is a table spoon. They make alot more sense when you arent thinking of them as a measurement. Its just what the two standard spoons happen to hold.
Ounces vs fluid ounces: He didnt actually get anything wrong here, he just complained about something thats often touted as a feature of the metric system: 1mL = 1 gram.
Pound mass is not a real unit. We rarely measure mass at all. We often only measure the weight in pounds. We understand that this measurement is dependent on the force of gravity on earth, but where the heck else would i weigh something? Its a more straight forward measurement than mass for most applications. You will never hear in a normal conversation "my mass is 150 lb.". Its always "I weigh 150 lb"
Tons of refrigeration: Honestly we just use BTU for everything
AWG: Pretty much anything "gauge" gets smaller as the gauge increases. Its pretty common.
Thou: Common measurement for manufacturing purposes. Typically construction uses fractional inches instead, typically in 1/16th of an inch. Occasionally dipping into 64ths. The reason for the difference has more to do with the fact we dont measure 2x4s with a dial caliper
I actually like the yard.
Because it’s very close to a meter, which is a decent, actually usable unit.
That makes the yard the best unit in the American system.
A meter is about 1.1 yard. Or rather, 100 m are about 110 yard, but not exactly. Three feet are closer to a meter than a yard.
three feet and 3 inches is only 1 cm or 1% off a meter.
3 feet, 3 inches and 37 thou is even closer, only 0.00401575 inches off.
@@HappyBeezerStudios There is no way that “3 feet are closer to a meter than a yard”. They are exactly the same. Yard is defined as being 3 feet.
@@mathy4605 the fact there is even confusion about that say a lot about the imperial system
Today's trivia. A Canadian football field is 110 feet long, which is almost exactly 100m. (101m). Interesting foresight that anticipated us going metric.
In another weird coincidence, many road systems were laid out on mile and a quarter grids. I leave it as exercise to see how that anticipated kilometers.
Isn't that how they added a crater on Mars? Yard=meter, close enough.
The metric tonne is 2205lb, but there's also another imperial unit, the long ton, which is 2240lb.
We know
Diversity makes life exciting!
AWG is still used today - It's placement is not representative of the fact that hobbyists, electricians, and engineers in the US use it. Despite the confusion around the number to physical size, it doesn't take long to get used to. I'd place it in B tier since It takes experience to understand it.
It also makes nice round numbers for the max amperage the wire can take.
it's also used in pretty much any other field that measures round things, including injection needles, and shotgun pellets.
I lost it with the slug measurement 😂😂😂
7:57 since i live in Australia i can truly appreciate this joke since i use metric everyday
When you mentioned thous you could’ve also brought up kips (kilopounds) which also conveniently use that decimal-place-shifting method that would’ve been such a nice system to use
Wikipedia's lack of listed creator for that unit has either saved a life or a grave today
But how does that compare to a short ton and a long ton
@@abattlescar 1 kip equals 1/2 of a short ton, or 25/56 of a long ton.
And exactly 45 359 237 / 100 000 000 of a metric ton. Just in case you were wondering.
Confusingly enough, a kip is closer to the weight of a Swampert than a Mudkip.
what makes part of them even more confusing is the US and Imperial version being different as well
Fahrenheit is underrated. Like it has at least one practical use in measuring feverous human temperatures. The other three in C tier are just inferior and nonsensical in every way to metric units and should be in D tier.
A standardised size for Teaspoon and tablespoon are the only things that are good. Metric home baking is fun and logical, until it comes to measuring trace ingredients.
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I pray that we will some day get a simpler measuring system🙏
One thing you seemed to have gotten mistaken is the Fluid Ounce, which is actually worse than you think. 1 Fluid Ounce of water is slightly more than an ounce, and is actually defined as "exactly 128th of a gallon". It's only called a fluid ounce because it's roughly close to being an ounce.
The fact that the top 3 unused Tiers weren't
U
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is a criminally missed opportunity 😂
Hmm, where is "U" in this video? (Yes, he should have added an Ultimate tier :D)
6:40 "can EASILY converted to any other unit of length"
**continues to drop random numbers**
No furlongs? How about bushels and pecks? You also totally ignored cords. I enjoyed this video and I think you should do another about the stranger units of measure.
It’s a shame that this list failed to include the U.S. survey foot. In 1866, US Congress decided to define the foot as [1 foot = 1200/3937 meter exactly (or 1 foot = 0.304 800 6 meter approximately)]. In 1959, the internationally agreed upon conversion for a foot became [1 foot = 0.3048 meter exactly]. The change was recognized across the US, but geodetic surveyors were allowed to use the old system as an exception. Somehow it took until January of 2023 to get them to shift over to the international foot and deem the US Survey foot to be obsolete.
Despite being made obsolete, my college surveying professor still made me do calculations with Survey feet in 2023.
I think I know imperial units quite well for a European, but the existence of Rankine, Tons of refrigeration and slugs came to as a surprise. Are they even in regular use? Also I appreciate the fact that not a single unit was above B tier.
Not to the everyday American. I understand they may find use in some academic or professional arenas.
Rankine in particular strikes me as an obtuse attempt to avoid Kelvin for no better reason than to preserve the ancient tradition of Fahrenheit while turning it into something completely unrecognizable. Why bother?
Slugs seem rather useless. The only two points in favor of the imperial system are 1) familiarity, and 2) ease of fractional conversion to other units. Slugs fail both.
I can't speak to tons of refrigeration.
@@danejohannescaldwell7999Because Rankine makes all the formulas work the same as kelvin, but using Fahrenheit as the base unit instead of Celsius. You avoid having to convert every unit in the problem.
Tons of refrigeration are still used. A lot of ac units get designed for nice round numbers in ton and usually with single digit numbers. I can only assume for the convenience of it that the unit has stuck around.
Rankine probably made more sense when it was created, but everyone uses SI for anything science related so it is antiquated. I only like to bring it up when people say that Celsius is better because of Kelvin, but obviously you can do the same with Fahrenheit to get an absolute scale. I have never seen Rankine used though.
I have heard of the slug, but never seen it used or really know why it was created.
US Customary, not Imperial
@@danejohannescaldwell7999 Rankine and Kelvin scales are absolute, which must be used for doing calculations with gas laws, etc. In the arena of force, mass, and acceleration, the slug corresponds to the kilogram. A force of one newton will give a mass of one kilogram an acceleration of one meter per second^2. A force of one pound will give a mass of one slug an acceleration of one foot per second^2.
In physics, SI units are now used exclusively. Not so much in engineering.
A mile is also a standard from surveyors. It is 66 feet times 80. 80 being the number of Chains in one mile. What is a Chain? A tool for surveying (Think of the first down chains used in football, just longer) made up of 99, 8 inch chain links which totals 66 feet of chain, or one Chain.
10 square Chains is also 1 acre. (Square Chains, not Chains Squared, think a 2x5 grid)
are u a surveyor?
@@pupper42 No, but my dad was for a while
You're close on the Gunter's chain; each link is actually 7.92 inches or 0.66 feet and 100 links per chain. A "pole", also known as a rod or perch, is 16.5 feet in length or 25 links; sometimes seen in old deeds of conveyance.
@@NipkowDisk I actually really appreciate the correction, I would sworn it was 100 links but then the math worked better with 99 LOL. My dad taught me random tidbits about surveying he did 20 years prior, so the numbers were a bit fuzzy.
@@ThespianGamr Understood... 20 years is a long time. I can't even remember most of what I did yesterday! Also, I'm a now-retired surveyor myself; I do still keep my license active. It's a fun profession that, sadly, very few youngsters are getting into.
Was afraid you'd put Farenheit higher but a pretty reasonable tierlist overall.
Fahrenheit should be higher. 90% of the time we use temperature to talk about the weather or the room temperature. There is a noticeable difference between 85-87 degrees F but you can call them all 30C. Also who cares what temperature water boils at? You don't set your stove to 100C to boil water, you just turn it on high and water might freeze at 0C but you don't set your freezer to 0C to keep your food frozen, you set it to -18C which is... wait for it... 0F!
Hi, I agree that there's a difference between 24.4C and 30.6C but luckily decimals are a thing and celcius has no problem expressing these values at all.
Taking the boiling and freezing points of water as 100 and 0 values objectively makes more sense than the incorrect estimate of human body temperature and the freezing point of a salt water mixture that fahrenheit uses for these values.
The -18C that you set your freezer to is a relatively arbitrary number set there as a compromise between efficiency and energy consumption. The reason that is isn't -19C is because -18C is easier for Americans to remember and American companies just caused it to be the standard.
Can we get a Tier List for the Metric system as well? It shouldn't take very long, just put them all in A tier and we're good.
S tier.
It's basically just one unit - the Meter - interpreted in multiple ways.
As an American, I had never before heard of using pounds as a unit of mass, so thanks for bringing this to my attention. I was taught that pounds are a unit of force, and that slugs are the unit of mass... although we pretty much never use slugs (similar to how in SI it is rare to use the units of force in day-to-day life, instead using mass units as if they stand for weight).
If you think about it historically though, pounds absolutely *have* to be a unit of mass. For eons pounds were measured on a balance scale, which can only measure mass. Until the invention of spring steel, we literally had no way to measure force. Which all leads to the next point: historically, weight meant mass. Heck, "mass" didn't even exist in English until relatively recently. So we had been happily measuring mass under the name of "weight" with pounds and ounces on a balance scale until those units and that term were redefined to mean something they simply could not have meant historically.
I hadn't either. Nor have I ever used slugs. Even 20 years ago, I learned in HS physics that you measure mass using kilograms.
There are mass pounds, but nobody ever uses them. Technically, one mass pound exerts one pound of weight under Earth’s gravity.
But don't Americans always give their own body mass in pounds?
@@Juttutin No. My experience is that we give our body weight in pounds, and rarely talk about mass except when doing physics.
It's all pretty horrible. As a Norwegian, I rarely encounter these, the exceptions being hp for cars, which is a marketing thing and not important, inches for TV sets, which is a marketing thing and not important, and spoons/cups for some recipies...which is really annoying. True story: I once messed up a cake because my grandma has smaller coffee cups than I do.
That's why Americans have sets of cups of standard cup/tablespoon/teaspoon size in their kitchens. :D
that's nothing, I once got lost because the other city has their parking meters further apart than mine.
the measuring system is not responsible for people's inability to comprehend the standard unit.
As an American I think these rankings are unfair… I would give an F to every god dang thing in our measurement system I hate imperial with a burning passion the fact that all of the smartest people in our country i.e. doctors scientist etc. use metric should tell you all you need to know
A lot of the reason why inches are the worst are because there are no widely known smaller units of imperial measurement. When measuring something small tf am I supposed to say “about 1/10th of an inch by 1/6th of an inch or so?”
Liquid units are actually almost good. They are almost entirely base 2, making them really good for doubling, quadrupling, halving or 1/4ing a recipe. Unfortunately it isn’t taught well, and there’s a few outliers.
2^0=Tablespoon
2^1=Fl Oz
2^2= 1/4 cup
2^3=1/2 cup
2^4= cup
2^5= pint
2^6= quart
2^8= gallon
I’d give it A tier if it wasn’t for a few issues. A teaspoon isn’t 1/2 of a tablespoon, but 1/3. 1/3 of a cup is a commonly used unit. And 2^7 is missing a unit. I feel it deserves at least C tier compared to other imperial units though.
Also, ranking (ounce) weight low because it’s based only on the weight of pure water is kinda interesting considering metric does the same thing… a gram is based on a mL of pure water. Other liquids have different weights.
unlike what he said , metric system exist , and justify those stuffs to be in F tier XD
a 1000 grams is a kilogram and the kilogram, symbol kg, is the SI unit of mass. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in the unit J s, which is equal to kg m2 s -1 , where the meter and the second are defined in terms of c and ∆νCs.
a 1000 ml is a liter and a liter is a cubic decimeter, which is the volume of a cube 10 centimeters × 10 centimeters × 10 centimeters (1 L ≡ 1 dm3 ≡ 1000 cm3). Hence 1 L ≡ 0.001 m3 ≡ 1000 cm3; and 1 m3 (i.e. a cubic meter, which is the SI unit for volume) is exactly 1000 L.
2^7 is just a half gallon, so it's still good there.
@ja_ma correct, the definition of the kilogram vs liter was changed quite some time ago to fundamental units. So Americans are stuck measuring pure water for weight and then match that volume for fl oz, whereas everyone just has to measure the cube of how far light travels in about 33 picoseconds. Easy-peasy!
TIL. Thank you, random internet person, I now have a notably better chance of being able to double a batch of cookies without taking notes.
@@ja_maI'll just add that that definition of a kg is, in fact, relatively new and up until recently, it was defined by a metal mass kept in a laboratory (I believe in France) which was defined in 1889. Unfortunately, that's not really a good way to define things and so they moved to the standard you state in 2018.
(The water definition ran from 1791 until it was replaced by the standard mass)
Only one I would put in S is horsepower. I think it has a really cool story and makes it easier to understand an engines power than any other unit even today.
1kW = 1,36HP
Yeah cause we all grew up around horses lol
@@agme8045 can you visualize what you can do with 0.735 kW of power? Can you name 5 things that require 0.735 kW without looking it up? If you can, write 5 things you can do with one horse, work related of course. See which one is easier.
@@naberyoutube2802 i don’t think I can charge my phone with a horse.
@@naberyoutube2802 as stated, horses are >1HP anyway. You might have an intuition for horsepower because that's the world you grew up in. This scooter has 4HP, this shitty car has 66HP, this nicer car has 140HP, this semitruck has 500HP. You don't have an intuition of this because you know how much work a horse can do and extrapolate that 500 times for a truck. If you grew up with the same experiences but swap the numbers from HP to kWh, your comment would be inverted right now
Fahrenheit is still lacking even in the given context. When it's cold there's a difference between freezing and sub zero temperatures... Celsius just doesn't have that.
To sum it up; customary is more convenient day to day but genuinely awful for mathematical equations
2:13 As an Arizona resident, 100 Fahrenheit is not uncomfortably hot.
A/C or outside? ;-)
As a former Arizona resident... I'd agree only because 110-120°F days existed which means 100°F days feel not as bad.
7:52 this is literally how the whole world except USA measure things lmao
That was the joke.
What makes wire guage even more confusing is that in the trades we dont call 000 wire "zero zero zero"
We call it "triple aught"
It means triple naught. But americans just love being lazy and getting rid of random letters. Brits too, for that matter. Or should I say ma'er.
That shouldn’t make it confusing, aught literally means 0 like the Canadians saying zed for Z.
A “30 aught 6” is a .30 caliber round developed in 1906.
And gauge makes more sense in shotguns when you understand how it’s derived. A 12 guage shotgun has a barrel diameter that a sphere of lead the diameter of the barrel would weigh 1/12 pound. The smaller the diameter the more spheres would be required to make a pound. Hence a 20 gauge requires 20 balls
Where as shot sizes inside a shotgun shell are also a number system that gets bigger as the numbers get smaller.
But Phillips screwdrivers get smaller with number. Ph 3 down to a Ph0000 most common is a ph2 though.
Fahrenheit is the most infuriating to me because the metric equivalent makes so much sense and is so insanely easy to define / measure