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Mathematics : A Better System

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A Better System
Have you ever wondered what would happen if there was no order in the world? No way to keep track of time or other necessary things crucial to making sense of the world around us? Math was created for that specific reason. It is an extremely essential type of “language” that is used by humans in almost every aspect of their life. It consists of a wide variety of numbers, symbols, and notations which help to measure many different units of measurements some of which are distance, time, and quantity. Math is used to maintain an order of these numbers so that the many different quantities are not jumbled together; simplifying them for humans to be able to better understand. Two of the biggest systems of math known all around …show more content…

The metric system is far superior than any other form of measurement known to man. One reason lies within one of its major characteristics, simplicity. There are two major points that help breakdown and define why this system is so simple: it has one unit of measurement, and its easy scalability by prefixes (“Metric” 1). It is a lot easier to convert in the metric system between different measurements such as mass, volume, and distance due to all of the measurements being in increments of ten. It removes all of the unnecessary extensive formulas and replaces it with a magic number to easily do any conversion necessary. The scalability by prefixes builds on top of the one unit of measurement needed by simply multiplying or dividing by ten, whichever is needed, and just changing the units “suffix” to achieve the desired measurement. The imperial system, on the other hand, makes all of these measurements more complicated than they need to be.
Unlike the metric system, the imperial system has several different units for each form of measurement. For example, a measurement of length contains several units some of the common ones being inches, feet, and yards. In order to measure all of these together, they would all need to be converted into one of the three units. It just makes everything much more difficult as the numbers begin to rise in quantity. Some major subjects such as science and medicine also use the

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