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Old 07-14-2014, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by kato13 View Post
I am reluctantly fluent in metric, but the foot is very useful. I even had a foreign born friend say so unsolicited two days ago (when I was discussing how the Fahrenheit scale is the one holdover I want if the US goes metric).
I find that surprising. I don't mind feet as a unit of length (I can describe someone's height in feet much more accurately than in centimeters) but the Fahrenheit scale is a total mystery to me. Degrees centigrade have a simple internal logic. Zero is the freezing point of distilled water, 100 degrees is the boiling point. What could be simpler? And generally speaking, metric is just so much easier to get your head around as far as the maths is concerned. 10, 100s, 1000s. You don't have to learn things by rote (12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to a mile, bloody hell!).
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