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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 647256" data-attributes="member: 158">Re: Re: It's an age-old traditionEh, go suck on a rust monster! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Seriously, I totally agree with you in the superiority of mathematics and the metric system; however, I make the same claim with feet and inches, that you do in metric. It's because it's what we were raised using from Grade school onward. I can eyeball pretty well to feet and inches; however, I cannot for the life of me eyeball how many meters and centimeters are in a given length.Conversely, I can make much better measurements with a metric tape ruler than I can with an english standard one. I have an easier time figuring something to be 5.2 centimeters than I can to be 2 & 7/16 of an inch, or what have you.It's all in what we use for the majority of our adult lives; you are more comfortable with metric because it's what you see every single day, and vice versa.</blockquote>