"slugbug" wrote in message
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The UK uses Celcius not Fahrenheit.

I understand that. Unfortunately, you Britons foisted Miles and
Fahrenheit on us back when we were getting started, and we've been
stuck with them ever since. Now if we ever switched over, it would be
a catastrophe! Just think:

1) We would have to throw out all of our mercury thermometers, creating
an environmental armageddon

2) All of the roads in Ohio and the majority of states are marked off
in 1 mile squares. This means you come to an intersection of another
road each mile down the road, which lets you figure how far you have
driven with no problems. Think of all the math we'd have to use if we
switched to kilometers! (what is that, something like 1.4 km x however
many roads we've passed...)

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Dollars are Metric, ergo American money is in Metric

Just about every country in the world uses Metric, Canada went
Celsius/Metric in the 1970s, here is a fabulous URL on the topic, check out
the graph:

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm

When exporting to Metric countries, products from the USA are commonly
produced with metric figures.

Universities, labs, medical, engineering, architecture, many other
professions/advanced education in the USA are increasingly Metric.

One significant obstacle to the USA going metric is the general public, many
who don't appreciate the value of Metrication.

Cost savings galore, tho calculator sales will diminish, since much of
Metric is easy to do in the head, very simple.

Here is another URL for you, this one's about Metric 'n stuff:

http://www.fordhamprep.com/gcurran/s...s/lesson29.htm

As a teacher during the times of conversion up here - which is a process,
still going on, some just don't get it, it's a bit of a study - I found the
most effective way to get thinking in terms of Kilometres (some spell
Kilometers), was to go for a 1k walk. Soon you can eyeball a kilometre.

Shorter distances memorize 15 cm = 1 foot

It seems that if one ***has not*** memorized the number of feet and yards in
a mile, one will not come to understand Metric distances...

Everybody shd grow some grapes in containers!

bg
www.lchb.ca