Temperature system of the USA
On 10/22/2016 10:55 AM, Pat wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 10:34:29 -0700 (PDT), ItsJoanNotJoann
wrote:
On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 12:22:39 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 10/22/2016 11:45 AM, Bod wrote:
Anu ideas why the USA hasn't changed to the Centigrade system?
Only a handful of countries use fahrenheit today.
Centigrade makes a much more logical system.
Centigrade: 0C is freezing and 100C is boiling.
Probably the same reason Brits use pounds instead of 10 bases dollars.
12 pence to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound. Worse than our
temperature system.
That's why Alexander Hamilton set up our monetary system to be
easily divisible. It's a lot easier to divide numbers by 10
(our system) than the British system of dividing by 3.
I take it neither of you has been to the UK in a long while. They use
a decimal system just like ours and have been doing so for decades.
Not according to the Basil Rathbone movie I was watching last night.
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