Thread 17836685

People actually measured things in feet?

fucking footfags

>>17836685 (OP)
hands too

>>17836685 (OP)
The humble cubit:

Imagine the struggle for millennia to find something in the natural world around you that can be used as universal weight or length and always failing to find it.

the kings foot is exactly 12 inches.
he is a good ruler.

I measure in 9 inch increments... Guess what I use?

If everyone agrees on what defines a standard foot, then it does not really matter what you use in the real world
The Metric system was invented by French Classical Liberal reformists, the same people responsible for autism like the Cult of the Supreme Being, who believed strongly in decimalization as a sort of "universally elgant" numbering system. The problem with this line of thinking is that the Decimal system isn't really that elegant, we just use it because we have 10 fingers. In reality, base-12 is far superior to base-10, since 12 is a highly composite number and is easy to derive more equal units from it (2, 3, 4, and 6) compared to base 10 (literally just 2 and 5).
There have been proposals for a base-12 version of the Metric system, but much like Esperanto, it never left niche circles.

>>17836847
your bf

>>17836854
>muh divisibility
Why are Americans so deadly afraid of decimal points?

>>17836882
I'm just saying, if the point of the Metric system is elegance, then choosing base 10 for it kinda misses the mark

>>17836888
except our number system is base 10. To fit all basic units of measurement to fit perfectly onto our numbering system is extremely elegant.

>>17836685 (OP)
>average-ish foot is 24 cm
>one foot is 30.2 cm
???

>>17836925
Our musical scale is in base-12
So is our system of time (seconds, minutes, hours, and months per year)

>>17837630
Imperial system confirmed for being made by 7 foot tall Gigachads

>>17836824
Imagine being an American still in this primitive measurement stage

>>17837640
America is a mixed system similar to the UK, while things like most road signage are still in imperial measurements, some states have metric road signs on certain routes, plus nutrition labels are metric, and so are most goods (many drinks are sold by the liter for example), most bullet calibers use metric designations as well, save for older cartridges that don't have a STANAG. The US is also Metric on a legal level as per the Metric Conversion Act, and all imperial measurements are legally defined using the metric system. I'd say the US is about halfway there. The biggest holdouts are the construction, aviation, and automotive industries.

>>17837648
I'll also add that the medical industry is purely metric, everything from drug dosages to needles are exclusively metric in the US

>>17837648
Man, I can't wait for your empire to finally collapse. Interesting stuff tho

>>17837653
Just two weeks away my raging brown friend

>>17836725
>>17836813
This made more sense than a fucking foot. Who uses their feet for measuring things?

>>17837656
It makes sense for measuring distance, knowing how many feet away something is will give you a very rough estimate on how many steps you need to take to get there

>>17836685 (OP)
The foot is a division of the pace.
5 feet = 1 pace
5,000 feet = 1,000 paces = 1 Roman mile
5,280 feet = 1,056 paces = 1 English mile

13th century cookbook Le Viandier "shows that cooking times were expressed in a number of prayers that were said"

Number of prayers is way more superior than seconds/minutes since you're forced to cherish god instead of looking at stupid clock hands

>>17836685 (OP)
Why did they use such an ugly foot for this image. They should only use neutral, attractive looking feet. Like Hermes’ in pic related

>>17837658
That would make sense but the problem is you measure objects more often and even the heights of people, So in that context the number of steps doesn't make sense, unless you walk on people

>>17837730
I mean, your feet also provide a convenient visual reference. If you say someone is 5 and a half feet tall, you can just look down to get a very rough estimate on how tall they were by usng your feet as a visual reference, it wasn't accurate, but it was accurate enough

>>17837741
Wouldn't cubits make more sense there though? The length is even more apparent just by looking down and you can actually measure a person that way instead of estimating in your head how many steps it takes to walk on him. Also I think it makes more sense for it to be the primary unit of measurement in general because you need a lot more "feet" to walk around the perimeter of a property than elbow to finger tip spans. And since everyone has different sized body parts, more such imprecise measurements added together would make the whole measurment even less reliable. Imagine that you need to measure 100 feet of something and person A has a 1.1 feet foot and person B has a 0.9 feet feet. That's a possible range of 110 to 90. If they used cubits and their body parts varied by the same amount then I believe the uncertainty would be reduced by about half since 1 foot = 0.66.. cubit so twice as less crappy measurements needed to be taken.

>>17836725
Mr. Hands

>>17837630
Omg nooooooo!