"Jim Jackson" wrote in message
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On 2021-02-16, Steve Walker wrote:
On 16/02/2021 17:20, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:54:41 +0000, nightjar wrote:

On 16/02/2021 13:18, jon wrote:
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Yes I remember this was a pre-cursor to joining the Common Market, ...

I don't. I recall it being sold as being easier to teach to children.
Apparently learning base 10 was easier than learning multiple base
systems.

Which also sounds like a crock. Were British schoolchildren peculiarly
disadvantaged by having to learn Lsd - especially on top of imperial ?

Decimal works well with metric and metric is generally easier for
scientific and engineering calculations. So it probably makes sense to
decimalise money as well, so everything can be calculated using the
same, simple system.

However, while metric is good for such calculation, imperial has much
more everyday usable sized units and divides nicely in a variety of
different ways.

I just use both interchangeably, depending upon which suits better for
the circumstances.

ditto - but I've completely lost any appreciation of degrees F - just
doesn't mean anything to me anymore.

I still remember what 100F means comfort wise.

I don't like admitting this, but I actually had to
lookup what the boiling poinbt of water was in F !

That’s just the alzhiemers, nothing to worry about.

I still think of people's height in feet but not much else.
Don’t bother with imperial weights at all any more,
volume in spades.