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Thread #127365   Message #2840407
Posted By: Bert
15-Feb-10 - 06:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Happy Birthday Decimalisation
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Decimalisation
Right there Mousethief. The metric system is completely unnecessary because you can use decimal fractions in ANY system of units.

Engineers have no problem using thousandths of an inch, Surveyors quite happily use tenths of a foot. So there is no need whatsoever to destroy other units systems with metrication. All it does is make it easier to divide by ten at the expense of making it impossible to divide by three.