subject: Why the Conversion? [print this page] Planet Earth has humans spread all over the globe. Some are able to get in touch with others, while others are totally secluded by land or sea. However, a long time ago, people were not aware of the presence of others. Thus, they would create their own languages and even description for things. One of the things they created were measurements of things, in order to get a fair trade from the people of their village.
Yet, when things modernized, people discovered the existence of other groups of people living together. At the same time, they discovered that those people would share a mutual language, description for things, and measurements among each other, but not with them.
Now, in order to advance their lives, people realized they needed to work together. Some of the things that worked at country A may work even better if used county B's creation. And in order to share inventions, they would need to be able to understand common things like measurements. For example, instead of creating a new common word for county A's ft and country B's meters, they could
Planet Earth has humans spread all over the globe. Some are able to get in touch with others, while others are totally secluded by land or sea. However, a long time ago, people were not aware of the presence of others. Thus, they would create their own languages and even description for things. One of the things they created were measurements of things, in order to get a fair trade from the people of their village.
Yet, when things modernized, people discovered the existence of other groups of people living together. At the same time, they discovered that those people would share a mutual language, description for things, and measurements among each other, but not with them.
Now, in order to advance their lives, people realized they needed to work together. Some of the things that worked at country A may work even better if used county B's creation. And in order to share inventions, they would need to be able to understand common things like measurements. For example, instead of creating a new common word for county A's ft and country B's meters, they could both enjoy the use of their own words by using the magic of math. Using ratio, in this case, helped solve the problem from changing ft to meters. Ft to meters, in this calculation would be 1 foot is equivalent to 0.3048 meters. This conversion is done by comparing the different measurements with one another.
Such conversions are also necessary to make words easier to understand. Imagine having to say the length of an item is 0.9144 meters, when you can say 3 ft instead. This makes numbers more comprehensible and easier to remember than remembering every single digit. Mistakes are also lessened, especially when there are a lot of numbers to deal with.
All in all, having the existence of conversion has made life a tad much better and a whole lot easier.
both enjoy the use of their own words by using the magic of math. Using ratio, in this case, helped solve the problem from changing ft to meters. Ft to meters, in this calculation would be 1 foot is equivalent to 0.3048 meters. This conversion is done by comparing the different measurements with one another.
Such conversions are also necessary to make words easier to understand. Imagine having to say the length of an item is 0.9144 meters, when you can say 3 ft instead. This makes numbers more comprehensible and easier to remember than remembering every single digit. Mistakes are also lessened, especially when there are a lot of numbers to deal with.
All in all, having the existence of conversion has made life a tad much better and a whole lot easier.
