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Maybe you should look at Australia instead of the UK for a successful conversion. Not that I think a partial conversion is such a terrible thing. | | [01:50] Chruser:
Personally, I would have liked the Imperial system more if it was more consistent with "base-12" units. Divisibility by 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 is nice. | | [01:56] Chruser:
Inches, feet, pounds, oz, pints, gallons, grains and quarters seem a lot more arbitrary and hard to relate to real objects than the metric equivalents do. | | [01:59] Chruser:
Also, grains, pounds, drachms, stones, and quarters seem horribly unrelated based on their names alone, whereas you'll be stuck with "gram" for the different metric units of mass. | | [01:59] Chruser:
The abbreviations for the former units aren't very intuitive, either. | | [02:13] System: Chruser
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