Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood by everyone else?
(What I heard in the UK during the supermarket transition to metric a decade ago: imperial uses fractions, which is a useful to grasp for learning children, etc. But I'm surely misquoting so don't worry about this argument)
I am asking because I only come across the imperial system when watching Mythbusters or reading a book about the Space Shuttle, or someone tells me their weight in stones, which always leaves me rather puzzled.
This is just out of curiosity, I'm not trying to work anyone up.
> Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood by everyone else?
What other advantage, you ask? Well, I'd say that there is none. I was merely trying to convey that being fluent in both imperial and metric is better than being fluent in only metric. As long as it doesn't hurt me (which imperial doesn't) the more skill-sets I have, the better!
I hope you better see where I'm coming from now. You didn't work me up though, and I also didn't mean to work anyone up either. :)
> Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood by everyone else?
The metric system is 10 based, which makes it trivial to measure and convert: 1000mm = 100cm = 1m. This becomes even more important when you are talking about volume or any ^3 dimension.
I have lived in the US for 15 years and even today, I'm unable to convert fl oz. to any kind of mass measure without getting a headache along the way.
Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood by everyone else?
(What I heard in the UK during the supermarket transition to metric a decade ago: imperial uses fractions, which is a useful to grasp for learning children, etc. But I'm surely misquoting so don't worry about this argument)
I am asking because I only come across the imperial system when watching Mythbusters or reading a book about the Space Shuttle, or someone tells me their weight in stones, which always leaves me rather puzzled.
This is just out of curiosity, I'm not trying to work anyone up.