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Now do "Imperial units of measurement to be obsoleted".

• fanf2 6y ago
  They already are mostly obsolete! (American units date from before the British volume measure reform that created imperial units.)
• pmontra 6y ago
  Believe it or not, the US rod is a close relative to the Italian pertica, which is a traditional unit of length and surface, coming straight from the Roman Empire. It's still used to refer to the size of fields. I found it recently in some sales announcements. Of course every city had its own variant. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertica_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura) https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertica_(unit%C3%A0_di_misura)
• dang 6y ago
  Let's not have a hellwar about this please. Anything so repetitive (and likely so nasty) is off topic here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
• hanche 6y ago
  The survey foot is going away soon, and not a moment too early. Having two feet with a mutual ratio of 499999/500000 seems rather confusing. But to be sure, the survey foot has apparently not been used much since 1986. https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot