This is going to be a rant about the imperial measurement system! I don't care you use Fahrenheit, inches, miles, feet's, yards, football fields and whatever......it's those damn fractals that I really can't understand! To be honest I am terrible at math...I hated it! Working on my homebrew game was a challenge as you can imagine since it contains a TON of math! This is probably why the collision detection still sucks after four years! 
...but that is a story for another time.
I can write out the calculation and understand it...mostly....but doing it all in my head in a "reasonable" amount of time is impossible! For me anyway! It's things like 1/4 , 3/8,1/2, 5/8, 3/4 etc. that bite me in the butt the most!! I get that what it stands for...divide an inch by the last number and then multiply it with the first. But than I still need to convert THAT into millimeters to actually understand it's size!! But even if it was something like 0.25, 0.38, 0.50, 0.63, 0.75 it would already make much more sense and clear in an instant which one is bigger than the other! Right? Maybe it's just me and my stupid brain that does not understand math as well as it does logic!
(I mean this as a joke...being a developer writing programming logic )
The reason it's been bugging me is because I am doing some electrical conduits through the wall and for some reason here in the Netherlands the imperial measurements are used for those pipes!!!!
So there is the small standard diameter of 16mm (actually labeled as 5/8) and a slightly bigger one of 19mm (labeled as 3/4). What kind of super human knows in 0.2 seconds that 5/8 is smaller than 3/4????? In metric it's so simple 16mm vs 19mm. Just basic numbers and one is obviously larger! Why is it so hard in imperial numbers????
Btw...I do realize that you guys probably get this drilled into your head at school and that it becomes natural to you. But for someone living and thinking in metric this just makes zero sense!
Last week I got an air compressor for a bunch of reasons I will probably post about some other time. The hoses, fittings, couplings etc are in this same insane imperial system and it irritates me a lot that I just don't get it. To know in a quick glance....ohh..that one is bigger or smaller! That's how you end up buying the wrong stuff at the hardware store...and no...I did not ask anyone there for help with this. But I might do it today...since I need to go there AGAIN (must be the 8th trip there in less than 3 weeks....)
I think I am good now. Sorry about that.
...but that is a story for another time.I can write out the calculation and understand it...mostly....but doing it all in my head in a "reasonable" amount of time is impossible! For me anyway! It's things like 1/4 , 3/8,1/2, 5/8, 3/4 etc. that bite me in the butt the most!! I get that what it stands for...divide an inch by the last number and then multiply it with the first. But than I still need to convert THAT into millimeters to actually understand it's size!! But even if it was something like 0.25, 0.38, 0.50, 0.63, 0.75 it would already make much more sense and clear in an instant which one is bigger than the other! Right? Maybe it's just me and my stupid brain that does not understand math as well as it does logic!
(I mean this as a joke...being a developer writing programming logic )The reason it's been bugging me is because I am doing some electrical conduits through the wall and for some reason here in the Netherlands the imperial measurements are used for those pipes!!!!
So there is the small standard diameter of 16mm (actually labeled as 5/8) and a slightly bigger one of 19mm (labeled as 3/4). What kind of super human knows in 0.2 seconds that 5/8 is smaller than 3/4????? In metric it's so simple 16mm vs 19mm. Just basic numbers and one is obviously larger! Why is it so hard in imperial numbers????Btw...I do realize that you guys probably get this drilled into your head at school and that it becomes natural to you. But for someone living and thinking in metric this just makes zero sense!
Last week I got an air compressor for a bunch of reasons I will probably post about some other time. The hoses, fittings, couplings etc are in this same insane imperial system and it irritates me a lot that I just don't get it. To know in a quick glance....ohh..that one is bigger or smaller! That's how you end up buying the wrong stuff at the hardware store...and no...I did not ask anyone there for help with this. But I might do it today...since I need to go there AGAIN
(must be the 8th trip there in less than 3 weeks....)I think I am good now. Sorry about that.
