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No you can still use a metric system, just use the foot (or similar) as a base and then kilofoot, megafoot, microfoot etc. rather than inches, yards, miles, lin
by twelvechairs 3y ago
No you can still use a metric system, just use the foot (or similar) as a base and then kilofoot, megafoot, microfoot etc. rather than inches, yards, miles, links, chains, rods and perches etc.
- 2muchcoffeeman 3y agoWe already kind of do that. I’ve seen things like 1.5 gallons, 2.5 miles, 10.7 feet. I’ve never seen the intermediate imperial units being used.
- tomatocracy 3y agoAt least in the UK my experience is we don't really use decimals with Imperial units - it seems much more natural to use fractions. For example, "10 feet 8 and a half inches" not "10.7 feet" (yes I know the rounding is slightly different). For a smaller distance you might say "three sixteenths of an inch" (since thats what the imperial side of a tape measure is typically divided into) though there are some exceptions eg "0.1 inch spacing". Pints and fl oz the same (you see this quite often in recipes for example) - "1 pint 3 fl oz" or even "23 fl oz" not "1.15 pints". For gallons I think most Brits would likely use a whole number of pints rather than subdividing (ie "21 pints" not "2 gallons, 5 pints"). But I'll give you that we don't really use furlongs outside of horse racing :)