aemeijers wrote:

Ed Pawlowski wrote:

"Smitty Two" wrote in message

Hard to argue with that much illogic! Working with decimals is ten times
(!) as easy as working with fractions, which is exactly the OP's point.


When our company bought a machine that was all metric, I though it
would be a PITA. A few months after working with it on a regular
basis, I think we should have changed to metric 100 years ago. I can
also think in terms of bars for pressure too, not to mention grams per
liter for density. I even buy my soda by the liter.

Don't look now, but this country DID officially switch, several decades
ago. They just never enforced it, other than for the size of booze
bottles and dosages for meds, and some other stuff I can't remember
right now.

One of them was highway speed limit signs in KPH, posted alongside (or
right under) the MPH ones. They disappeared a few years after they went
up, at least they did here in Red Sox Nation.

Jeff
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Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.

Some stuff (like spark plug threads) always was metric. In
formerly non-metric countries, English measurements are still common. Go
up to Canada and buy a sheet of plywood- you'll see. Some old property
records are neither- how many people know how long a chain and a rod are
without looking it up? Half and half products are a real pain. Remember
the Pinto? It had a German-design engine, with US parts hung off it. Try
finding metric bolts with English heads these days.

Once the last manufacturing plant in CONUS closes up shop, it'll all be
a moot point anyway.

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