Ask anyone form the UK their height, weight, or for a glass of beer. Feet/inches, stone (America never really adopted that) and some scale of pint would be the

Ask anyone form the UK their height, weight, or for a glass of beer. Feet/inches, stone (America never really adopted that) and some scale of pint would be the reply. Yet ask them to do a calculation in these measurements would result in looks of scorn, "THAT'S INSANE' in the words of Moss from IT Crowd. Because we calculate in metric, and that's because all textbooks post late 70s were in metric and 'new pence' [1]. Fahrenheit is largely dead as a common measurement in day-to-day conversation, pint the least likely to disappear, as it's treated as a countable unit, nor an interval scale; on that matter, probably stone too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(British_pre-decimal_coin) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(British_pre-decimal_coi...