sequoia
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I've always wondered why we still use the Imperial system of unit measurement. I mean this system is seriously outdated and obsolete. And yet I continue to use Imperial even though it can be seriously painful. When you think about it, using the length of someone's foot as a standard is seriously primitive. And then the godawful fractions.
There was a movement in America to go metric about 40 years ago. It met with incredible resistance even though it was shown that metric has many advantages over Imperial.
I continue to use the damn system because that is what I was brought up with. Thanks Britain.
Check this out:
For the yard, the length of a pendulum beating seconds at the latitude of Greenwich at Mean Sea Level in vacuo was defined as 39.01393 inches. For the pound, the mass of a cubic inch of distilled water at an atmospheric pressure of 30 inches of mercury and a temperature of 62
There was a movement in America to go metric about 40 years ago. It met with incredible resistance even though it was shown that metric has many advantages over Imperial.
I continue to use the damn system because that is what I was brought up with. Thanks Britain.
Check this out:
For the yard, the length of a pendulum beating seconds at the latitude of Greenwich at Mean Sea Level in vacuo was defined as 39.01393 inches. For the pound, the mass of a cubic inch of distilled water at an atmospheric pressure of 30 inches of mercury and a temperature of 62