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: : : All European countries at least... except England, I believe.
: : Yup, we use a bit o' both... Why? Coz we're special and James Bond is my dad...
: If I'm not mistaken the US got it's system of measurement from English kings. An inch is the distance between two knuckles of a finger, foot is a man's foot, and yard is either one stride or the distance from the tip of the nose to the tip of the fingers on an outstretched arm. I don't know where mile came from. Converting American measurements (like how beter to say a large number of inches) is like converting thousands of seconds into days, hours, and minutes. It sucks. Metric is so much beter and everyone knows it.
And most important of all, it's 10 based!
Which means all measures leap over to the next one in 10/100/1000, like 1000 meter in one kilometer, and 100 centimeter in one meter and 10 millimeter in one centimeter.
Unlike the imperial system, where conversions seems to make no sense..
Another thing nice to know is that 1 dm³ is one litre, and one litre of water is 1 kg.
: : Yup, we use a bit o' both... Why? Coz we're special and James Bond is my dad...
: If I'm not mistaken the US got it's system of measurement from English kings. An inch is the distance between two knuckles of a finger, foot is a man's foot, and yard is either one stride or the distance from the tip of the nose to the tip of the fingers on an outstretched arm. I don't know where mile came from. Converting American measurements (like how beter to say a large number of inches) is like converting thousands of seconds into days, hours, and minutes. It sucks. Metric is so much beter and everyone knows it.
And most important of all, it's 10 based!
Which means all measures leap over to the next one in 10/100/1000, like 1000 meter in one kilometer, and 100 centimeter in one meter and 10 millimeter in one centimeter.
Unlike the imperial system, where conversions seems to make no sense..
Another thing nice to know is that 1 dm³ is one litre, and one litre of water is 1 kg.
