Metric system or U.S. Standard?

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Spencer278

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Spencer278

Originally posted by: Ornery
I found the plywood measurements:

• 2500 x 1250 mm or 2440 x 1220 mm
  98.42" x 49.21" or 96" x 48"

I like saying 4x8 better!

Thats what I've been try to tell them but they don't leason. The metric fan boys would rather have one unit for length then create some pseudo units that are really just the same so they can clam it is easy to convert between them.

Let's not forget all the uncommon Metric measurement variations. We all are familiar with millimeter, centimeter, kilometer, but there are other *meter types that can be used.

From Meter, the base measurement we have the 1s position.
10s: Decameter
100s: (don't remember)
1000s: Kilometer
....etc

0.1: decimeter
0.01: centimeter
0.001: millimeter
...etc

So you like small numbers? Then Metric is right for you! Buy you 12 gallons(arbitrary number picked for it's common useage) of gas, but note that you could have simplified the situation by buying 5 Decaliters instead!

The metric units are just stupidly redudant why bother defining how ever many units that are just a quick way of doing X * 10^y.

Not sure what you are getting at.