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why is the US not Metric
xrunner:
boffin:
--- Quote from: jonovid on October 25, 2019, 10:24:21 am ---whats the attraction to the use of old imperial measurement in the US?
here in Australia everything is Metric, like most of the world.
why is the US system of measurement the odd one out?
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Arrogance.
The same thing that is hampering the USA at pretty much every turn. The thought that the rest of the world should bow down to their beliefs.
The UK is trying to enact the same arrogance, with the assumption it will boost them internationally, while it will have pretty much the exact opposite effect.
A number of posters are quite correct in that lots of industries are metric now, and just quietly convert it to feet and inches to appease the luddites.
Now if only we could get them to use YYYY-MM-DD..... instead of the insane MM-DD-YYYY
xmetal:
I tend to use Fahrenheit for higher weather temperatures and Celsius for the lower ones. I use both feet and inches and metric, pounds and ounces and metric. I'm of an age when I initially was taught in Imperial but we switched to SI units whilst I was at school.
Ice-Tea:
If you want to learn more about how historic measurement systems have deep repurcussions even in this space age:
https://aviationhumor.net/the-us-standard-railroad-gauge-is-4-feet-8-5-inches/
NivagSwerdna:
--- Quote from: Simon on October 25, 2019, 03:53:55 pm ---... It's not much of a stretch to assume he would switch the country back to imperial if he could.
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:palm:
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/logician.php
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