No. It's the other way around. Metric is the one that's stupid. Systems of units grew out of convenience of use over hundreds of years. Each unit evolved for a specific purpose and was intimately related to the job in hand.

Then along comes this madman and changes everything and throws away all these units. For what? The metric system was implemented for one reason only - it was because Napoleon had 'short man's disease'. He had to change things, simply to show his power. (Which is also why he made everyone drive on the wrong side of the road)

The metric system is not really a system of units at all. It is really a system of 'Non Units'. You can't choose different units for different jobs to make the figures more convenient, because there are really no different units to change to. The millimeter is different from the meter 'only' in the position of the decimal point.

The system is so useless that even the French (who contrived the mess) don't know what it means. I bought a bottle of wine in France and there cast into the bottle was the size 100 CL. What ^$#&^%# geniuses they are, 'this bottle contains one hundred hundredths of a liter' DUH!

You can't change from working in, say, pounds per square inch to tons per square inch, to make the numbers smaller and easier to work with because 'every' change in the Metric System gives you the 'same number' with just the decimal point moved one way or another. Your whole concept of 'units' is GONE, VANISHED, DOESN'T EXIST.

Also it discourages the use of fractions to the extent that people who use the metic system eventually become incapable of dividing by 3 (let's not even think about surds).

Bert.