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There are two reasons:
1. Our standard of measurement is one of our longest traditions.
2. The United States is still the largest manufacturer in the world.
effective july 1, 1959, the united states and countries of the british commonwealth defined the length of the international yard to be exactly 0.9144 metres.[1] consequently, the international inch is defined to be equal to exactly 25.4 millimetres.
yep. It's an inch. It's defined by the metric system. That's hilarious.
The u.s.a is one of three countries in the world that don't use the metric system. The other two are burma and liberia.
mars climate orbiter - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the mco mib has determined that the root cause for the loss of the mco spacecraft was the failure to use metric units in the coding of a ground software file, “small forces,” used in trajectory models. Specifically, thruster performance data in english units instead of metric units was used in the software application code...
7.62 mm.
3 and 1/4 in shell.
2 liters. Makes sense, right?
Just like a gallon of milk makes sense, right?
because this is america g@wdd@mmit and we don't want some p*ssy european telling us what to do!
A "long ton" is 2240 pounds, the standard unit of measurement for large weights in the US is the "short ton" which is 2000 pounds. Much simpler to do calculations in your head just like the metric system.
I was young when they tried to introduce the metric system, it's too bad it didn't take more ground and become the standard. It's so much easier to use.
There are many issues, take building products for example. How do you change something like that when every building in the US is built using feet? A 4*8 piece of plywood in meters is not going to line up on studs made for 4*8 feet.
The majority of Americans are math illiterates that's why we haven't gone metric yet.
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