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Originally Posted by Pike
Personally I do not think nor do I want us to change. Our founders decided when they freed themselves to be different from the others. As to converting just say it in metric. If they really want to know they will convert it themselves. I have a conversion page bookmarked.
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I don't get it? America's founding fathers wanted America to be based upon imperial units? Seriously though - I imagine America used the imperial units because that's what the much hated British were using at the time. There was certainly no uniqueness in using imperial units back then. The USA's reluctance to adopt metric units, is not a problem, but it's just a bit old fashioned really. The UK has been encouraged to adopt some metric units by the European Union, there was a lot of outcry about it - particularly by old ladies - but really it's been for the best conversions between metric units and metric units is, naturally, so much easier than conversions between imperial and imperial. I say don't knock it until you've tried it.