Maurice,
But in the USA I heard they are so last century that they still use pounds, hundredweight, stones, inches, feet, yards, chains, miles, rods, acres, Fahrenheit, gallons, pints, quarts, barrels, poundals, slugs and probably pecks, bushels, furlongs, perches, grains and drams which I can't fathom.
Don't forget that they also have two different sizes of inch, yard, chain, mile etc.
There is the metric inch of 25.400000000000000000 mm (and all derivative units) and the US Land Survey inch (mile etc).
I believe that this was done so that all those expensive properties along the coast of California would not fall into the ocean when the inch was metricated, as a result of cumulative errors in mapping across the continent.
John |
