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oreopoulos wrote:Trying to explain that to someone who has used the metric system their whole lives is a loosing proposition, but I'll give it a shot just the same. A foot is a very meaningful unit of measurement. My shoes are exactly one foot long. I pace out heal to toe all the time to measure. Within seconds I can measure to within an inch or two without having to carry a tape measure around 24/7. In metric my shoe measures 30.5 cm. How useful is that?
I always wonder why the hell do you still measure in feet inches but after reading your post i got even more frustated.
We count all our lives with base 10. What is more natural tha meters and all meters / or * 10
Please tell me one good reason beside people got used to.. to keep that crazy system
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