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Jan 2023
12:31pm, 31 Jan 2023
19,355 posts
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rf_fozzy
Why people still use archaic imperial units at all
Genuinely don't understand that.
It's the 21st century not the 17th.
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Jan 2023
12:31pm, 31 Jan 2023
19,356 posts
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rf_fozzy
What even is an ounce? Meaningles..
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Jan 2023
12:45pm, 31 Jan 2023
76,272 posts
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Diogenes
Because they having meaning to us. I have a much better concept of how much someone weighs if it is expressed in stones and pounds rather than kilos because that is what I grew up with. The same with height. If I hear that someone is 6 foot, I have a good idea how tall that person is. If someone expressed that as 1 metre and something I wouldn't have a clue.
I have a better idea when it comes to kilometres thanks mostly to running and getting familiar with doing metric to imperial conversions and vice versa.
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Jan 2023
12:45pm, 31 Jan 2023
28,691 posts
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fetcheveryone
[they are not measuring different things though, just opposite sides of the same run rate coin. One is runs per 100 balls; the other is runs per 6 balls. Kilometres versus Miles - both acceptable units of measurement, but only comparable when converted into one or the other. By your logic, RPHB is meaningless for batters too, as they may not face 100 balls; and RPO meaningless for bowlers if they do not bowl exactly 6 balls.]
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Jan 2023
12:47pm, 31 Jan 2023
76,273 posts
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Diogenes
Re mpg, I understand fuel economy when expressed that way, I have no idea what the equivalents are in mpl. I'm not sure I've ever seen performance listed that way in this country?
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Jan 2023
12:50pm, 31 Jan 2023
382 posts
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ptr_rnr
Dio, it's km/L or L/100km. You'd not mix miles and litres. Unless you were a sadist and loved mental arithmetic
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Jan 2023
12:50pm, 31 Jan 2023
19,358 posts
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rf_fozzy
[no, the difference is that a bowler, usually, delivers a full over and then only multiples of that. A batter may face 2 balls in one over, miss 3 overs, then 1 ball, then 3 overs continuously so the RPO stat is misleading for the batter - RPHB is thus convenient here. I guess you could use RPHB for bowlers too, but RPO is a better measure]
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Jan 2023
12:52pm, 31 Jan 2023
76,274 posts
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Diogenes
Dio, it's km/L or L/100km. You'd not mix miles and litres. Unless you were a sadist and loved mental arithmetic
I think I have unwittingly further illustrated my point
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Jan 2023
12:53pm, 31 Jan 2023
19,359 posts
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rf_fozzy
[imperial units are genuinely meaningless. We should have scrapped them all at decimalisation. The only reason anyone knows that 6ft is 1.83m is purely cultural. Just stop thinking about ft and whatevers and it'll soon become 2nd nature]
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Jan 2023
12:54pm, 31 Jan 2023
76,275 posts
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Diogenes
Using the same measure (e.g. RPHB) for both batters and bowlers is only useful when measuring the performance of the team as a whole.
[I keep thinking Fetch is Katie because of the avatar.]
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