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Old 05-11-2009, 01:01 PM
 
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Than.... measuring things with guesstimates. I dunno. Everyone's always just said that it was more accurate.
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Old 05-11-2009, 01:25 PM
 
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Metric is more precise. I can't believe that's even being debated on this forum. It's a non-issue. The entire scientific community uses metric. As do all the countries of the world except the US, Burma and Liberia (Three former English colonies).

Of course, every scientist/engineer/mathematician in the US uses metric, as does the US military, etc... Metric is far better, so much so that it's not even a remotely controversial subject. I can't believe that there are actually people that still don't get this. But then... this is the Tucson forum and with the public schools in this town...
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Old 05-12-2009, 10:22 AM
 
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Metric is more precise. I can't believe that's even being debated on this forum. It's a non-issue. The entire scientific community uses metric. As do all the countries of the world except the US, Burma and Liberia (Three former English colonies).

Of course, every scientist/engineer/mathematician in the US uses metric, as does the US military, etc... Metric is far better, so much so that it's not even a remotely controversial subject. I can't believe that there are actually people that still don't get this. But then... this is the Tucson forum and with the public schools in this town...

That's kind of rude, Spot. I thought it was pretty obvious that I at least was kidding. Not to mention that I don't (yet) live in Tucson, nor did I go to school here.

Lighten up.
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Old 05-12-2009, 01:18 PM
 
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That's kind of rude, Spot. I thought it was pretty obvious that I at least was kidding. Not to mention that I don't (yet) live in Tucson, nor did I go to school here.

Lighten up.
Sorry JillBoBill,

I was responding more to Zony and Bummer, not you. I knew you were kidding. I should have made that clearer. My apologies.

Best regards.
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Old 05-12-2009, 06:31 PM
 
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Metric is more precise. I can't believe that's even being debated on this forum. It's a non-issue. The entire scientific community uses metric. As do all the countries of the world except the US, Burma and Liberia (Three former English colonies).

Of course, every scientist/engineer/mathematician in the US uses metric, as does the US military, etc... Metric is far better, so much so that it's not even a remotely controversial subject. I can't believe that there are actually people that still don't get this. But then... this is the Tucson forum and with the public schools in this town...
Lol, and for those doubters about metric system preciseness here's the wiki definition of a nanometer ...

Nanometre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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