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I do not prefer the metric system .

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The metric system is a great system for scientists - it makes lots of the equations much simpler by making the conversion constants in various equations equal 1. Imperial is a useful system for everyday people, full of specialised measures that are scaled to human needs, like the amount of fluid a

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Dont you hate it when someone gives a temperature in celsius, a distance in meters, or a similar foreign measurement and you dont know what theyre talking about?

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on topic: the metric language is the language of sciencethe metric system is much, much better than out system of measurements]everything in the metric system is expressed in 'powers of ten'there are ten centimeters in a decameter, ten decameters in a meter, one thousand (10x10x10) meters in a

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Dont you hate it when someone gives a temperature in celsius, a distance in meters, or a similar foreign measurement and you dont know what theyre talking about?

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scrap our  system, and go to metric, I wish they did, but due to american arrogance, and laziness, the idea diddnt materialize. I dont know how old I was then, but I can just barely remember the adults arguing about it, so I was about 7 or 8, I would guess.I think the metric system is better,

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I don't see why there's such an adversion to the metric system. Everything is in multiples of ten, not 12, 5280, 16, and so on. It's much easier to be precise in metric too. I really don't care if the people in general use the English system, but NASA and the military should adopt it.

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This is the ratio between a pound force - the standard unit of force in the imperial system - and a newton, the standard unit in the metric system.

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Are they trying to make us dumber?

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is being measured (distance, volume, et cetera), you have to specify which system is being used.  They could have said 'Imperial feet and inches", but no American likes to think of it that way.To further complicate things, "metric" simply means "measurement".  They are ALL metric systems.

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