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Because I stay in touch with people abroad, I make it a point to translate our standards into metric. When I took Petunia abroad, she looked to me to translate degrees C to degrees F. In the states most cars have BOTH miles and kilometers on the dial. We buy our soda pop in liter bottles. We generally see the milliliters printed on bottles. Tool kits generally come with metric wrenches. It's the acres to hectares that slows me down.
Um . . . how many hectares to a super Walmart? I'm guessing two.
WonderWartHog99
Level 8
Feb 1, 2019
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Anybody that can understand bushels, pecks, and stones shouldn't be afraid of a base 10 system.
glennlab
Level 10
Feb 1, 2019
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Weight in stones is common in the UK and Ireland but not in the states. It was prohibited for commercial use in the UK by the Weights and Measures Act of 1985. It was confusing enough for the Brits. Go ahead and tell someone you drive a 1,287 stone truck and see the glaze on their face. They might ask "You driving a ROCK?"
Bushels and pecks vary depending on what you're buying. For example a bushel of dried apples is 24 pounds, a bushel of barley is is 48 pounds and a bushel of soy beans is 60 pounds.
Confuses me.
