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Imperial..
Why? because i grew up on it.
I really can care less what the rest of the world uses.
Yep. Humans are creatures of habit. Aside from the science community, I think the rest of us would feel quite unhappy and inconvenienced if we were forced to give up the system we had been using all of our lives.
Metric is the most American system! The Colonial/Imperial system has the foot based on the shoe size of a 11th century English King--very un-American. Plus I thought we overthrew the British in the late 1700's, so why continue to use the oppressor's system?
The Imperial system evolved through use so is more user friendly. It is more a base 12 system. 12 is divisable by 2,3,4 and 6 while 10 is only divisable by 2 and 5 (base 16 would have been best). The metric system was concocted. No tradesman would ever come up with millimeters, certainly not before spectacles were invented, they are too hard to count. An inch is a wonderful thing. It can be divided into 1/2,1/4,1/8,1/16,1/32/1/64....it's binary!
Still, if I were dictator, I'd force the US to switch to metric for trade purposes.
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This is what I would have done. Keep the inch and make the foot 16 inches (2^4), dump the yard (tape measures make it obsolete) and make the mile 65536 inches (2^16, very close to the current mile)
Last edited by greyfox2000; 06-05-2009 at 07:16 AM..
People are used to the English system. If you were someone who had to use both systems on a regular basis, is becomes apparent which is the easier to use. Both systems have flaws but the metric system is far more standardized, anyone who deals with ISO should know this. In the long run we as a country could save a huge sum of money by switching over to this. Most of the world already has and for good reason. The metric system is good for trade, its good for manufacturing, and it is good for quality.
People are used to the English system. If you were someone who had to use both systems on a regular basis, is becomes apparent which is the easier to use. Both systems have flaws but the metric system is far more standardized, anyone who deals with ISO should know this. In the long run we as a country could save a huge sum of money by switching over to this. Most of the world already has and for good reason. The metric system is good for trade, its good for manufacturing, and it is good for quality.
When you use both on a daily basis it is definetly much more apparent to see which is easier to use. I believe the United States would benefitly majorly if it was to metrify.
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