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I guess the problem for the older generation, especially here in the UK, is they were raised on imperial units and have never really gotten used to metric. Not
by djhworld 9y ago
I guess the problem for the older generation, especially here in the UK, is they were raised on imperial units and have never really gotten used to metric.
Not saying that excuses it, but it could explain part of the reason why some people don't fully grasp the £-per-X calculations
- vixen99 9y agoIf you could/can work out the change from a pound on a 4s-6½ (four shillings and six and a halfpence) packet of fags (circa 1050s), you'd hardly be likely to have much problem with metric. [As was: 1 pound = 240 pence = 20 shillings i.e. 1 shilling = 12 pence]
- beojan 9y agoI don't think they had tobacco in the 1050s.
- nkrisc 9y agoWell I'm not that old so maybe it's different but as an American raised on imperial units I find metric absurdly easy to learn because it is just shuffling a decimal point around. Going from metric to imperial must be challenging.
- Izkata 9y agoI'm also American raised on imperial, and metric conversions often confuse me _because_ of the uniformity of the conversions. Each imperial conversion has a unique number, making it easy for me to associate the unit with the number, but metric tends to get jumbled up.