Originally Posted by BMWTurboDzl
Originally Posted by Olas
Life is easier when you go metric
Isn't there a movement to revert back in the UK?
Or, gasp,,imagine using "stones" when talking about mass !
There are several conflicting movements at the moment, understandably so.
There are militant metricists, immovable imperialists, and ultra-liberal fence-sitting "let them measure how they want"ers
Officially and legally, we changed to Metric 50ish years ago. Most of the time we honour it but we still have road signs posted in miles, and anybody over the age of 30ish weighs themselves in stones.
We buy litres of petrol but we measure miles per gallon.
We buy litres of water/milk/orange juice/but we buy pints of beer (all other alcohol is metric but beer remains imperial
We measure deck height in MM but we skim in thousandths of inches...
fractions are all well and good until you need to work out 1/530 of a gallon, or 69/829 of a hundredweight, fractions fall apart quite easily but its always super-simple to add another zero or remove another zero because the 10x table is so easy.
When we have ten fingers it makes sense to count everything in multiples of ten, no?