I've been looking over floor plans, which give dimensions in feet-inches-fractions. I am comparing the area of rooms in different houses. It's really a nuisance to have to convert feet-inches-fractions into decimal feet to be able to (finally) multiply to get the area. It would be so much easier if the drawings were in meters!
Some houses need work, such as replacing the carpet or flooring. Carpet is often sold by the square yard. So I get yet more math to do to convert the room dimensions in feet-inches-fractions into square yards.
But it gets worse. About half of all flooring material is sold by the square yard. The other half by the square foot. So when I was in the store trying to choose a carpet, I had to keep converting prices back and forth to compare.
Nor does it end there. About half of the properties we've looked at have the lot area listed in square feet. The other half have the area listed in acres. Once again, I have pull out the calculator.
Most of those who think that the metric system is only for engineers probably have never understood measurement in any unit.
J.
