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Old 08-13-2015, 01:28 PM
 
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same in the US. Bottled beer is usually 330 ml or 500 ml. Soda is 2 liters and water is 500 ml.
Not exactly those measurements, but close to. Domestic bottled beer is measured in fluid ounces, not ml. 12 fl oz. and 16 fl oz. is most common. 12 fl oz. is approximately 33cl, while 16 is approximately 50cl

 
Old 08-13-2015, 01:33 PM
 
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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.
True, but the real issue is that most of us never need to calculate how many inches in a mile.
 
Old 08-13-2015, 01:34 PM
 
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same in the US. Bottled beer is usually 330 ml or 500 ml. Soda is 2 liters and water is 500 ml.
Nope.

It's in ounces. Like 50 ounces or something.
 
Old 08-13-2015, 01:37 PM
 
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It's called American exceptionalism.
 
Old 08-13-2015, 01:37 PM
 
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True, but the real issue is that most of us never need to calculate how many inches in a mile.
Didn't the Americans **** up an Apollo mission because the measurements were supposed to be in metric, but some clever guy did the calculations in inches instead of cm?
 
Old 08-13-2015, 01:37 PM
 
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You do that sort of thing all the time. Say I want to make a bookshelf that's 50 cm wide and a metre tall, if it has four shelves, how many metres of wood do I need? I'm making three loaves of bread this week, and each one has 500g of flour, how many kilos of flour do I need to buy? These cushion covers use 38cm of fabric, plus 2cm seam allowance and I want to make six, how many metres do I ask them to cut?
Your examples are comparing relatively similar scales, nothing like inches to a mile. In small numbers, like how many feet of wood you need to make a 30" bookcase, your average carpenter can make the calculations easily.
 
Old 08-13-2015, 01:42 PM
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Didn't the Americans **** up an Apollo mission because the measurements were supposed to be in metric, but some clever guy did the calculations in inches instead of cm?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_C...use_of_failure
 
Old 08-13-2015, 01:46 PM
 
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American water



American Aftershave



It's the same as here. Both ml and fl oz.
 
Old 08-13-2015, 01:47 PM
 
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I agree. The US is too stubborn for major changes.
It's not a matter of being stubborn or being different, it's a matter of economics. The sheer amount of infrastructure involved would make such a conversion exorbitantly expensive, time-consuming, and painful.

Just changing the roads infrastructure alone would be cost prohibitive. Think of all the signage, distance markers, mile markers, etc. that would need to be replaced not to mention all the vehicles in this country have instrumentation designed for imperial. It's not like our roads infrastructure budget is flush with money to spend. Repairs and upgrades are years behind. Who would want to see huge amounts of money being spent replacing all the miles signage when there are crumbling road surfaces rattling our cars?

For the metric fans, would you support changing our sytem of date and time so that a year was composed of 10 "months" and a month was composed of 10 "days" and a day was composed of 10 "hours"? Why not? Just think how easy it would be to calculate how many there are minutes in 5 years.
 
Old 08-13-2015, 01:47 PM
 
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ahh what's one failed mission when we get to stick with our "exceptionalism". Being sarcastic obviously. But the blowback you get in this country from trying to imitate anything done in the rest of the world or especially Europe is very telling of the mindset here.
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