It’s a pretty heavy mix, many of the most popular rounds are also referenced by their metric size but they’re not usually ‘useful’ sizes in either standard or metric.
There’s almost never a need to involve units outside of science which typically is metric anyway. Also most of these units aren’t really ever converted between, no one gives a measurement as 1 mile 300 yards 2 feet 6 inches.
no one gives a measurement as 1 mile 300 yards 2 feet 6 inches.
When this topic came up yet another time previously, USian engineers proudly chimed in saying that their software accepts any kinds of units and converts between them as needed, so they put in US units without bothering about whether metric units are used elsewhere in the project. Ergo, someone does in fact give measurements like in your example.
I have very occasionally seen measurements given in yd + in or yd. +dec ft. I have never once seen measurements given in any of yd + ft + in, mi + yd, mi + yd + ft and definitely never in mi + yd + ft + in. That would be like giving a measurement in km + dm + cm + mm, there’s just no reason to do it. Any cad software I’ve ever used is capable of handling mixed units because it’s trivial to implement, but I would be willing to bet it’s one of the most underutilized features.
Do americans actually do math with imperial system at school? That must be a nightmare and have conversion errors between units.
This is a common misconception. Americans can’t do math and don’t learn anything at school
You didn’t learn active shooter drills? How did you avoid getting shot?
That’s not true! They learn how to hide under desks
Kinda… The classes “teach” imperial but guns/bullets are metric
So the most American things in America are using the least American measurement system?
some of the popular ones are measured in metric, but there’s plenty that are not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliber#Metric_and_US_customary
It’s a pretty heavy mix, many of the most popular rounds are also referenced by their metric size but they’re not usually ‘useful’ sizes in either standard or metric.
For example:
There’s almost never a need to involve units outside of science which typically is metric anyway. Also most of these units aren’t really ever converted between, no one gives a measurement as 1 mile 300 yards 2 feet 6 inches.
When this topic came up yet another time previously, USian engineers proudly chimed in saying that their software accepts any kinds of units and converts between them as needed, so they put in US units without bothering about whether metric units are used elsewhere in the project. Ergo, someone does in fact give measurements like in your example.
I have very occasionally seen measurements given in
yd + inoryd. + dec ft. I have never once seen measurements given in any ofyd + ft + in,mi + yd,mi + yd + ftand definitely never inmi + yd + ft + in. That would be like giving a measurement inkm + dm + cm + mm, there’s just no reason to do it. Any cad software I’ve ever used is capable of handling mixed units because it’s trivial to implement, but I would be willing to bet it’s one of the most underutilized features.Huh?