Keep It Stupid Simple! - Page 6

 
It's a lot easier to misplace a decimal point with the metric system
than the imperial system (as there are none)   So there's even more
scope for blockheads to get it wrong.

 
AFAIK in the USA only carpenters use fractions, engineers and
machinists measure in decimal inches or often metric. I have some WW2
aircraft factory training manuals which teach new workers the decimal
system, no fractions or gauge sizes allowed.

 08:47:23 -0800 (PST), harry

And I thought the USA was the last bulwark of imperial measure!
When I was an apprentice it was so in the UK.  But we went partly
metric about twenty yeqars ago here in the UK.
Except beer. Beer is in pints. And we still have miles.  The f*****g
European Union is trying to make us accept kilometers now. We are
fightiing tooth and nail.
Petrol is in litres. As is milk in plastic bottles. But in glass
bottles, still in pints.

Don't let them metrify you over there.   The equivalent metric sizes
are always a bit smaller then the imperial size.  So you always end up
getting robbed.
Wood, bricks, everything.  eg 1200mm is less than four feet.  By about
an inch.  So an 8' X4' sheet of ply is now  94" x 47".   They stole a
bit of wood off us! b****s!
Forever we have lost it.

 harry wrote:

IIRC engineering officially went metric in the UK in 1962!


Tim Jackson

 
We were among the first countries to adopt the metric system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States
Look at "19th Century" and "Science and Medicine".

Both systems coexist here without too much friction.