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<blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 1378481" data-attributes="member: 3477">I just wonder why Americans don't use Roman numerals any more <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />! Any ideas <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />?j/kI know. The German word for a foot rule is &quot;Zollstock&quot;. &quot;Stock&quot;=stick, &quot;Zoll&quot; is a unit measuring 2.6088 cm (I just don't know what this reminds me of... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />). Anyway, that's long gone, although I still heard people using &quot;Zoll&quot; for 2.5 cm when I was younger. I still use pounds in the kitchen, although I mean exactly 500 g. Both examples show that old units were still in use for quite some time after the metric system had been made official, but the calibration of old units was adapted to the metric system. Units that could not be adapted, like feet or yards, vanished faster.Anyway, a system based on the decimal system is so much easier to use <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Turjan, post: 1378481, member: 3477"] I just wonder why Americans don't use Roman numerals any more :D! Any ideas ;)? j/k I know. The German word for a foot rule is "Zollstock". "Stock"=stick, "Zoll" is a unit measuring 2.6088 cm (I just don't know what this reminds me of... :D). Anyway, that's long gone, although I still heard people using "Zoll" for 2.5 cm when I was younger. I still use pounds in the kitchen, although I mean exactly 500 g. Both examples show that old units were still in use for quite some time after the metric system had been made official, but the calibration of old units was adapted to the metric system. Units that could not be adapted, like feet or yards, vanished faster. Anyway, a system based on the decimal system is so much easier to use :). [/QUOTE]

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