From: "Steve Smith" <sasd...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 9:35 AM
This American colleague personally has no use for the metric system. It's a completely arbitrary system that has no real advantage over our ancient and traditional measurements. It makes no more sense than the ten-day week. While France has given us many great things, their preoccupation with multiples of ten is a rather silly one. An inch, a cup, a pound, a foot, a pint and a grain all have a
Don't forget the knot., the link, the chain, and all the other silly imperial measurements. It's so easy to work with millimeters and centimeters when woodworking (compared with quarters, eights, sixteenths, 32nds, 64ths, etc, and 72 dpi to mention a few others). No doubt you're not using binary, etc.
relationship to the practical world that is much more useful than units based on the circumference of the earth. And while it was once somewhat difficult to convert miles per hour to feet per second (or furlongs per fortnight), we have calculators and Google now.
