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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.
Oh yes, and did I mention that that makes it possible to write measures using the 10^X system? hehe.. 3*10^3 = 3 km. Oh, I love metric.
: : : 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.
Oh yes, and did I mention that that makes it possible to write measures using the 10^X system? hehe.. 3*10^3 = 3 km. Oh, I love metric.
