On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:35:50 +0100, "John Towill"
wrote:

I prefer imperial, but for all that I wish that we would whole heartedly
switch to metric.

To be perfectly honest I can work with either imperial or metric, and
often do.

But I can visualise 6in much easier than I can 150mm. When presented
with a dimension such as 145mm I invariably do a quick mental
conversion to inches, because that's meaningful to me.

Andrew

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