Two kinds of nations in the world: those on the metric system, and those who have walked on the moon.
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What do Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States have in common? They are the only countries in the whole world that are not on the metric system. There is a reason practically all the world is metric. It's not because the metric system is less useful than SAE.
I have never known any one fully conversant in both who preferred working in SAE rather than metric.
You don't get out much do you?
A system based on water. One CC equals one ML and weighs one gram, it freezes at zero and boils at 100 at sea level. 1000 ML equals a liter. 1000 MM equals a meter. 1000 meters equals a KM, or a klick for the military guys. 1000 grams is a Kg aqnd 1000 Kg is a ton. Nothing could be more logical or easier to understand than that.
So you are unable to understand the way our powder measures work, that 32F is freezing, that water boils at 212F, that a quart is 1/4th of a gallon, A half mile is a half mile, 2.2 pounds is a Kilo, 2000 pounds is a ton?
We would be a lot better off if we had adopted metric with the purchase of Louisiana Territory.
Your mental issues noted.
The system came from France because at that time in History, France held the distinction of being the most scientifically advanced nation on Earth. Does Curie, Pascal, Laplace and Pasteur ring a bell.
I wonder why the spread sheets at work calculate in feet and tenths instead of inches?
I am beginning to feel you have no clue what you are speaking of. In tight tolerances inches are broken down into thousandths of an inch. If you never noticed which is obvious when inches are broken down into thousandths then overall it mimics the metric system but with smaller values. The math is just as easy.
I have been using metric interchangeably with SAE since the seventh grade. I can work with either. If I could change history, we would all be using metric.
