Metric Measurement (Page 5): The US dollar, made up of 100 cents. 1 cent= 1/100 of a dollar, back to fractions. 🙂...

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

The US dollar, made up of 100 cents. 1 cent= 1/100 of a dollar, back to fractions. 🙂

alexol

Of course, it depends on how long the general population of the US wants to remain second worlders, in contrast to the smart first worlders in the same but different country.

The consolation is that the dinosaurs are already old and will die off in a few more years.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

PhotoMono123 wrote:

Anyone knows that our imperial system is much easier to use:
1 foot = 12 inches
1 yard = 3 feet
1 mile = 1760 yards = 5280 feet
1 gallon = 128 liquid ounces
1 quart = 32 liquid ounces
1 pound = 16 ounces avoirdupois
212º F = water boiling & 32º F = water freezing

Why would you want another system? How could you want more clarity?

Besides, we ARE the U.S.A. Why should we change?

Just to take an example -

100C = water boiling & 0C = water freezing

This is way more simple than degrees fahrenheit
If you don't think so then you have a weird type of brain.

As for you being the U.S.A. and why should you change ?

Reminds me of the old saying 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink'. Even though he needs to ! The US is the last bastion of Imperial. That's 'Imperial' ! You still haven't cast off the remains of your colonial days. Still hanging onto the coattails of your distant ancestors. You should be leaders not running LAST !

jlg1000 Loc: Uruguay / South America

PhotoMono123 wrote:

Anyone knows that our imperial system is much easier to use:

1 foot = 12 inches
1 yard = 3 feet
1 mile = 1760 yards = 5280 feet

1 gallon = 128 liquid ounces
1 quart = 32 liquid ounces

1 pound = 16 ounces avoirdupois

212º F = water boiling & 32º F = water freezing

Why would you want another system? How could you want more clarity?

Besides, we ARE the U.S.A. Why should we change?

1 meter = 10 deciliter = 100 centimeter = 1000 millimeter = 1000000 micrometer, etc.
1 liter = 10 deciliter cubed
1 kilogram = the weight of one liter water
1 kilometer = 1000 meter
100 °C water boiling 0°C water freezing

Besides, we are the WORLD 🌎

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

jlg1000 wrote:

1 meter = 10 deciliter = 100 centimeter = 1000 millimeter = 1000000 micrometer, etc.
1 liter = 10 deciliter cubed
1 kilogram = the weight of one liter water
1 kilometer = 1000 meter
100 °C water boiling 0°C water freezing

Besides, we are the WORLD 🌎

I agree with everything up until the last statement. If the US keeps dilly dallying like it is you will become just another failed experiment. The US has such potential as demonstrated by how it entered the 2nd WW (although the dilly dallying that you so amply demonstrated delayed an inevitable entry). I could go on but this is probably enough.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

alexol wrote:

A4 paper is very similar to US Letter size. A3 is exactly double A4, and A5 is exactly half; the system extends from there, A2, A6 etc. Envelopes work similarly.

Unnecessary complication and information overload are banes of modern life. I understand MS Word allows you to paginate document in more than 200 ways - how utterly pointless. Likewise the construction company's pickup truck, going the same speed a traffic, with it's yellow flashing lights. What purpose does that serve??

Only the US and Canada avoid the use of A4. That's understandable though, because "eight and a half by eleven" is so much more convenient to say. 🤣

Could it be that money is playing a hand in this? Only these two countries can't afford to join the rest of the world.

By 1977, A4 was the standard letter format in 88 of 148 countries. Today the standard has been adopted by all countries in the world except the United States and Canada.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

jerryc41 wrote:

Only the US and Canada avoid the use of A4. That's understandable though, because "eight and a half by eleven" is so much more convenient to say. .......[/i]

"eight and a half by eleven" is so much more convenient to say.
Not as easy as 'A4'.
The US size is what is known as 'letter' size. Even 'letter' has six characters compared with 'A4's two.
There is no getting around the fact that there is no good reason why the US can't change other than outright stubborness and population inertia.

alexol

The last bastion of Puritanism...

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

alexol wrote:

The last bastion of Puritanism...

Another hangup from your colonial past.

alexol

Regrettably true.

I didn't mean it as a compliment.

Vaun's photography Loc: Bonney Lake, WA

While A4 might be shorter than 8.5 x 11, and be accepted by most countries, there is no obvious logic to indicate what the dimensions are. One must memorize each of those designations. Most people don't relish change. How the Ax system came to be so popular is beyond my comprehension.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

Vaun's photography wrote:

While A4 might be shorter than 8.5 x 11, and be accepted by most countries, there is no obvious logic to indicate what the dimensions are. One must memorize each of those designations. Most people don't relish change. How the Ax system came to be so popular is beyond my comprehension.

Why do you need to know what the dimensions are ? It is A4. Very rarely do you need to know the actual sizes except maybe for photographers and graphic designers. Who unfortunately are not 'most people'.
The origins of A4 sizes probably originally goes back as far as the letter size for the US. Even though the actual metric measurements are not very logical (an A0 size is exactly a square metre). It allows scaling that Imperial sizes don't. And it probably became a standard first.
There is now no advantage in being the last holdouts of the Imperial standard. Even 'Imperial' England has mostly moved on. And although tripod mounting screws (1/4" and 3/8") are still Imperial threads the 'metric' world seems to function okay.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

BebuLamar wrote:

What's the standard for Chinese inch? The standard for US inch is 25.4mm (oh yeah the inch has been redefined in metric measurement).

The US inch was defined in terms of the metric system as EXACTLY 2.54 cm. Remember the US was an Ally of France where the metric (SI) was founded.

jiminnee

As a mechanic, I've worked on both standard & metric. Can't say I ever worked on a vehicle that had both unless it had a foreign part on it.

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

If you've ever worked on a car with sparkplugs, no matter what the 'units' of the other hardware (nuts and bolts) were, the threads on the sparkplug were Metric. Sparkplugs have always been Metric, no matter where the car was manufactured.