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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] The 'non-metric' system (inches, feet etc) is called [i]imperial.[/i] And we use both. I can use both inches and cm. I measure distance in miles. And my speedo measures miles an km/h. Like all British cars. Metrix makes sense. cent=100 You should know that Americans. How many cents in a dollar? Kilo-1000. So there's 100 centimeters in a meter And 1000 metres in a kilometer. 1000 litres in a kilolitre. 1000 grams in a kilogram. CM are the only real case of using cents...all the other scales tend to use mili's (1000 milimeters in a meter, 10 milimeters in a centimeter, 1000 mililitres in a litre) and kilos. And sometimes nano's (as in nanometers) I can understand Amerians not knowing exactly how long a kilometer is, but not knowing how many cm's in a meter is shocking. BTW, why would you ant to convert feet into kilometers? Surely miles into kilometers makes more sense (1.5km to the mile is the rough estimate. It's more like 1.6, but what the hell). And our petrol stations now use litres. But most old people convert back to galleons. BTW, you're money system in metrix. You can understand that with no trouble can't you? Now WE had a imperial money system, and that was complex. Oh, and we still use pints for beers. Cause as 1984 said, 1 litre isn't enough, but 2 litres is too much. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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