The US legacy imperial system is inefficient and shouldn't be used

I'd like to point out that my opponent has moved off topic a lot. The topic is the imperial system, nowhere have I advocated for the metric system. The US legacy imperial system does not need any "contender" to fall flat on inefficiences. One could remove these inefficiencies without going metric.My opponent is myopic and is proud of it?" a system [...] needs to also ideal with things such as volume, surface, mass, etc. However, I disagree" That must be the most bizarre argument ever. In which world do you live in ? A 1D world ? No. We live in a 3D world, where surface and volume are very important. If your units of measurements of volume and surface don't easily relate to the units of measurements of lengths, that's deeply inefficient, and you don't address that. Everyone measures surfaces and volumes, all the time. "How many people, who aren't scientists, will ever measure something's mass?" Everyone, all the time. You buy stuff by its mass. If you don't care that the supermarket sells you 16 ounces while claiming it's 20 ounces, then you're among the minority. Without standards of mass and volume, trade can't function globally like it does nowwdays.Recipes"cooking a meal". If you don't see how INEFFICIENT it is to measure something, dump its contents and then cut it approximately, I can't do anything. In that scenario, you just wasted 3/4 tablespoon of whatever you wanted to measure, for no reason other than insisting on using the system of measures you chose. That's the textbook definition of inefficient. It's quite funny because by definition the teaspoon is 1/3 of a tablespoon. To divide your tablespoon by 4 you would take 3/4 of a teaspoon, not difficult to do, which is less wasteful than "dumping and cutting" why didn't you think of that with your "superb system" ? Alyn Williams DOESN'T use imperial measurements in this recipe. There are almost only grams, and milliliters. The tablespoon in that recipe is not meant to mean the tablespoon unit in the imperial system (which is defined as 14.79 milliliter), but a rough unit of measurement. If I defined, tomorrow, a system of measurement that defines the "tablespoon" and other, but with different definitions than the imperial system (say, 12 milliliter), by your logic, I could also claim that my system is also good for cooking because it's used in this recipe. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Scientific Notation and arithmeticsI don't talk either about the metric system nor about scientific notation, so the next argument is moot and irrelevant. We count things using base 10, that is a fact that don't changer whatever the number of days in a year (which does not determine our counting system, but by how earth moves around the Sun....). By his logic, maybe we should count in base 365 ? If you have problems dividing 0.015 by 2, I can't help your basic arithmetics. Talk to your basic math professor. Let me see, how would you go about measuring the 1/256 inches anyway ? You wouldn't. Engineering work in decimal inches, working with e.g. 0.004 inches instead of 1/256. What I mean is that fractions being "exact" is moot: You CAN'T measure a fraction. You measure an absolute value with a certain uncertainty given in your basis unit. Measuring is MUCH easier in base 10, talk to any engineer or mechanic or whatever profession that measures things smaller than an inch. One other thing, insisting that division is easy with fractions is a bit circular. Of course, becaue fractions are defined by divisions.... What if you don't use divisions when designing or measuring ? Then you see that you don't need fractions, at all. Don't insist on dividing stuff, you don't need to usually.Unit consistency?"a tablespoon is a tablespoon and an inch is still an inch". Nope, the definition of those units have changed drastically since a few centuries, going all over the place. You can claim that in a very rough sense. But why would you base a whole system of measurement (on which trade and the economy depends) on rough approximations ? If everyone is potentially scammed of a few tenth of percents at each trade transaction, that's a lot of inefficiencies. That's why the units are standardised and "an inch is an inch and a pound is a pound" since 1959.CookingWhen making breakfast I don't need to measure my battered eggs, what kind of recipe is that ? Anyway... For cooking: Cooking is chemistry. It DOES NOT work by volume. A given volume of flour can vary by a lot given the "tightness" of the flour, and this has HUGE implications. Try replicating a given recipe, using only the information that it is "a cup" of something that is dry, in different kitchens, and you'll see what I mean : You'll get different results. This is why cooking seems like dark magic for people in the US, because even if they follow a recipe to the letter they will have differences due ONLY to insisting on using imperial legacy system. It's bizarre.Again, talking about the metric system is off-topic. 1024 simplified to kilo by computer scientists a few decades ago does not mean that it is in the metric system anyway. For your information, this "error" can be said to be as much in the imperial system, because the imperial system has no unit for that, so uses the "metric system way". Plus, in a sense, there is no scam. The 1 gigabyte drive does contain 1,000,000,000 bytes, 1 gigabyte. You feel scammed because YOU use the WRONG way to measure the number of bytes (using kilo=1024). It's like buying a pound of butter and claiming you're scammed when you measure the pound with a faulty scale (that you know is faulty) and find "less than a pound".ConclusionMy opponent's conclusion tries to make this debate about the metric system. It's not. It's about the US imperial legacy system. Its fractional system does not make any sense (an inch is 1/12 of a foot, which is 1/3 of a yard, which is 1/1760 of a mile or 1/220 of a furlong or 2/11 of a rod) and my opponent didn't address that. He reiterates the fallacy of the "divide by 2,3,4,6" which I addressed: It is consistently as easy to divide in base 10 by any number, while in another unit you can divide easily only by certain numbers, while it's MORE complicated to divide by the other numbers.Well, it's my last round so I'l let my opponent the last word. But be wary voters, any appeal to vote against the motion on the basis of being against the metric system is very wrong because that debate is NOT about the metric system....