Who here measures 'things' on a daily basis and believes that the metric system is either more workable or more accurate?
I just had a discussion with a friend who's a retired chemistry professor and he tried trumpeting the talking points of the metric system that I've heard for my whole life.
I started doing weight conversions back in HS, 7gm=1/4oz and so on, now I'm using equipment manufactured in Italy so I take measurements using an Imperial tape measure and then do the conversion in my head into sillymeters to set the equipment........Then to make it even more interesting the Gumbha's have scaled the sander in 10ths of an inch?
Personally I find the Imperial system easier to deal with, 1/2-1/4-1/16-1/32-1/64.........Scales are readily available to do layouts to 1/64th precision, less if you sharpen your pencil on fine paper, but the metric offerings stop at 1mm or 1/25.4 of an inch, less than the smallest graduation on a Stanley tape measure.
I'm not interested in theory about how easy it is for the simpleminded to work in 10ths, if you measure things daily what's your preference?
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