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<blockquote data-quote="Silly Uncle Wayne" data-source="post: 75935957" data-attributes="member: 403510"><p>As someone who was born before decimalisation (though not old enough to remember it). I'd say that technically people measure in metric, but practically they use imperial.</p><p></p><p>That is changing as we have later generations that have been primarily bought up with metric.</p><p></p><p>It is really bad in the UK, but in Ireland all long measurements are are KM/KMPH, which helps a great deal.</p><p></p><p>Personally as mathematician, I think metric is a mistake and feet and inches are far better measurements. If people were truly in favour of metric, both angles and time would have been dealt with long before now. The fact that they are still based on a Babylonian system of counting using knuckles (base 12 if I remember correctly) is a good indication that we should drop metric and go back to more intuitive amounts. E.g. A foot is relatively easy to measure (use a foot), an inch can be taken from your thumb knuckle to the tip of your thumb. a yard is your nose to the tip of an outstretched arm and so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silly Uncle Wayne, post: 75935957, member: 403510"] As someone who was born before decimalisation (though not old enough to remember it). I'd say that technically people measure in metric, but practically they use imperial. That is changing as we have later generations that have been primarily bought up with metric. It is really bad in the UK, but in Ireland all long measurements are are KM/KMPH, which helps a great deal. Personally as mathematician, I think metric is a mistake and feet and inches are far better measurements. If people were truly in favour of metric, both angles and time would have been dealt with long before now. The fact that they are still based on a Babylonian system of counting using knuckles (base 12 if I remember correctly) is a good indication that we should drop metric and go back to more intuitive amounts. E.g. A foot is relatively easy to measure (use a foot), an inch can be taken from your thumb knuckle to the tip of your thumb. a yard is your nose to the tip of an outstretched arm and so on. [/QUOTE]
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