quote Originally posted by reinhart: Americans refuse to let go of the idea of a "quart" or "quarter"? Don't you have a looney quarter? It just means 1/4th. It has nothing to do with Imperial or metric unit. One can have a quarter of any unit obviously. Besides the Imperial system makes 100x more sense than the metric one. A foot = you guessed it...it's about the size of an average man's foot. A yard is an average stride. An acre is the average amount of area a team of oxen could till in a day. Now how practical is a meter? Ok so it's like 1/10000000th of the earths diameter? That's useful in every day life. I will confess that Celcius is more logical than Fahrenheit but that's the exception.

This could start a whole another thread and has been covered many times. It's the scaling of the units that's important, especially in engineering. Can't really easily scale a foot to an inch to a yard, etc. While you can easily a milimeter to a meter, to a kilometer, etc. Yeah let's not go there.

[This message has been edited by cebix (edited 04-26-2021).]