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Originally Posted by jamesqf
I dunno... I think he has a good point in that English units are often a lot handier to use for everyday things than metric. A mile? Well, that's a thousand paces (straight from the Romans), so anyone who can keep count can figure out how far they've walked. A cup is a handy size for something to drink out of, dividing things by halves is easier than tenths, sixes and dozens pack much nicer than fives and tens...
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Only if you are used to English units.
For those who grew up using metric it combines usability with logic. A liter of water weighs one kilogram and its volume is 0.001 cubic meter. Easy.
Before old Nappy laid down the lines every country had its own measures and they were all different. The meter is based on 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the north pole and the equator, as measured over the surface.
So nobody 'owns' it, it is a property of our planet.
So much less quirky than the 'average' length of a collection of medieval feet.
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