Re: Why MIL/MIL not MOA/MOA?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: David S.</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The whole point why mils work "better" with the decimal system is that in the decimal system, the same unit of measurement is used for distance and target size.
It doesn't matter at all that metric uses meters, you could use yards as well if you were used to think of target sizes in yards. Where it gets more complicated with the imperial system is when you try to calculate a distance in yards using a target size given in inches or feet, because that's where you have to divide or multiply by odd numbers while you only shift commas with the metric system.
It's not that one unit of measurement is "superior" to the other, it's just that the imerial system is not coherent and different units are being used for different parts of the equation. </div></div>
Totally agree. However, my point is Millradians might not be so easy to use throughout the universe if an advance civilization does not use a decimal system as their base numbering system.
It's very hard to be the only forward thinker in the room.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: David S.</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The whole point why mils work "better" with the decimal system is that in the decimal system, the same unit of measurement is used for distance and target size.
It doesn't matter at all that metric uses meters, you could use yards as well if you were used to think of target sizes in yards. Where it gets more complicated with the imperial system is when you try to calculate a distance in yards using a target size given in inches or feet, because that's where you have to divide or multiply by odd numbers while you only shift commas with the metric system.
It's not that one unit of measurement is "superior" to the other, it's just that the imerial system is not coherent and different units are being used for different parts of the equation. </div></div>
Totally agree. However, my point is Millradians might not be so easy to use throughout the universe if an advance civilization does not use a decimal system as their base numbering system.
It's very hard to be the only forward thinker in the room.