Originally Posted by joeprim
Steve
What makes it superior? A meter, a yard = the distance from ypor nose to your out streached finger. Weight makes no sense a gram or kilogram is a mass weight is force so here the SAE system makes more sense. Like I said before having the two systems gives an oportunity to teach kids about numbers. Think about fractions for a second 12 devides by 2,3,4,6 with whole number results and rational fractions with 8,9, & 10. What othe base does that. 16 is nice because 16/2/2/2 = 2. Not all that dumb for a base either. Like I said fun with numbers.
Joe
The fact that I don't have to ever use a calculator with metric is what makes it superior. Only a savant autistic can do that with the SAE system. Remember how much "fun" it was to add fractions together when you were in 3rd grade, what with the common denominator conversion and all that? It's a complete waste of time for manufacturers to verify they did all the units right before they build something.