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Old June 17th, 2016, 04:06 PM   #41
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Well, you Brits stayed with the disoriented "imperial" system a long time after 1776. We stayed with it also. I don't know when you Brits switched to Metric (about 1980?).

We in the U.S. are about half metric but a lot of very visible things are still imperial like Miles, Gallons etc. etc. - why we haven't switched is beyond me. But throwing off British rule was not exactly a hot topic in 1980.
I think the first metric system was a French law in 1795 or somethig. Then a certain Napoleon pushed it onto most of Europe. After that it just gets confusing. NASA were metric in the 60's but you can still buy a pound (Livre) of cheese in France.
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