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What is he on about? Imperial measurements are illogical, as is your date system.
Lol I'm just the messanger. I am quite comfortable with either. Being an engineer I was trained in almost total SI units. I could make the switch pretty easily. Even now where I work do a fair number of jobs in metric.
We inherited it from you lot so keep that in mind. If you had lost the French and Indian War we would all here in the US be speaking French and using metric. I think I like that part about speaking French. France has much better mountains and climate choices than the UK.
The author raises some excellent points, many of which I agree with. I think there's room for both, and America does use both systems. Why must we fully convert to metric? I don't see any major benefits.
While we're at it why not switch from English to Spanish, since the latter language is more logical.
I mean that, for example, if you know that there are 1000 meters in kilomter, 100 centimeters in a meter and 10 millimeters in a centimeter, you can easily calculate that there are 1000*100*10=1 000 000 millimeters in a kilometer. Calculating how many inches there are in a mile is more difficult.
I don't care for either. I'm flexible with both. The only thing I don't like about metric is wind speed being measured in m/s. That's potentially a lot of decimals being used there. Why not km/h for wind speed? That makes more sense
I only know 0 in Celsius is freezing, 100 in Celsius is boiling. The rest I couldn't tell you. For Americans we are too entrenched in Imperial measurements. We tried metric in the late 1970's and it didn't last. I use some metric but not Celsius now that I am not in Science class.
Ultimately this just devolves to another aspect of American exceptionalism. If the rest of the world used the Imperial system, the US would probably insist on Metric.
I use both, but lean towards metric, which makes far more sense. This is what I use:
Measuring height of a person: imperial
Measuring height in general: metric
Measuring weight of person: imperial
Measuring weight in general: metric
Measuring distance: imperial (only in miles, otherwise I use metric)
Measuring volume: metric
Basically, I only use imperial for measuring height and weight of a person, and road distances.
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