On Jan 28, 5:05*am, "Dave Plowman (News)"
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and it was still
pounds, shillings, pence and no one could make change

In the days of lsd, the average person could do rudimentary mental
arithmetic. These days most need a calculator, even although a base 10
system makes things simpler.

But of you're so dismissive of a non decimal currency, why does the US
stick to imperial measurements for just about everything else?

If you're a machinist or a shooter you use decimal inches. Works
fine.

Either the imperial or metric system works fine. Americans have used
metric in science and medicine since the War of Northern Aggression or
so. What doesn't work fine is the commonly used Metric standard
threads used on nuts and bolts. Actually-the old Whitworth thread form
was most superior. But UNC and UNF are BIG improvements on Metric.

In Britain they will still refer to people, fat people especially as
being "so many stone". And they used a lot of units we never did in
daily matters.

Nautical miles and knots (nm/hr) are still the appropriate measure of
distance and speed at sea universally.

L/s/d (I don't have the Brit pound key and don't remember the ANSI
sequence) currency worked okay for the Brits, but visitors from no
other country easily made change. And of course the Anglosphere
(excluding the US and Canada) and Japan, drive on the wrong side of
the road, AS COMPARED TO_EVERYWHERE_. Sorry, but THAT is weird. The
Irish would do well to switch. Boston is FAR more important to them
than London!