"J. Clarke" wrote in
:


The hold-out is that the US is still at least somewhat responsive to
the will of the people and the public doesn't _want_ some bizarre
French system crammed down its throat.


The trouble really isn't the origin of the system, but the fact that the
old one still works perfectly well. When you get past 1/32", you might
as well switch the decimal representation of the value, it'll be
difficult any way.

Between feet, inches, and miles, just about every distance most people
want expressed is expressed. It's not broken, it's just not always easy
to convert between magnitudes... but points where one magnitude is equal
to another in use are few. (And at points where the math is relatively
easy.)

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