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metric system vs us imperial system


John

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Before decimalisation of money in the UK, there were twenty shillings to the pound and twelve pence to the shilling, and thus 240 pence to the pound.

A price tag could say "£4, 3 & 6" which is 4 pounds, 3 shillings and six pence. (42 pence total)

Quick, add 4,3&6 to 2,17&3. No?

Metric is a good thing.

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Where do you drink that the pints are 20oz? When I was bartending ours were 16oz. I thought that was pretty much standard in the US

most places have the 16oz. pint glass. i have a bunch of pint glasses from random bars and they are almost all 16. do have a few 20s though. there are a decent amount of places that have imperial pints though too. places like old bag, claddagh etc usually have them

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I love metric. Especially Newton/Meters. Despite the fact that there are about 8 different metric systems for fasteners. There are multiple Imperial systems also, but Imperial is British, Canadian, Aussie, etc. The USA uses SAE, which also has a type of metric, not just inches/feet/pounds/etc. But at least it's a firm set of standards, and not all confused.

Just being picky, and oh yeah, the US Army uses month-day-year for as long as I can remember. But the future will probably be year-month-day, because it sorts correctly on a computer.

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Being an IT guy who deals with databases in many different countries with different date formats I always write dates as 20110813 (for the computer) or 2011-08-13 (human readable). If I need time too then I write 201108130918 or 2011-08-13 09:18. Alpha sorts in date order, and no fellow employee has ever had to ask for clarification on which is the month and which is the day.

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