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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 4164839" data-attributes="member: 1211">I have never ever had any problems with this, but I feel extreme frustration when I come upon ounces and gallons and stuff. Besides, the acre is fine if you are using oxen to plow, bring in a tractor and the defenition loses it's ground. What is enough for one serving depends on what you serve and how big the one you serve is, etc. I can understand being used to the measurements, but those justifications are very weak.I think the starting units work fine for what they do. The meter is perfect in small scale measurements. A Human is between 1 and 2 meters tall (mostly), a building 20 meters. Is that to short? Then you just add a prefix and you are set. Instead of meters, kilometers. You don't have to think beforehand that "well, you take foot times three... Then I want to make this into miles, then I have to multiply the yards by the square root of Henry VIII:s glove size etc etc". The prefixes that are commonly used are kilo, centi and mili. I haven't seen the other ones used in everyday life. Besides, they go very well together with weights, since a mililiter of water is the same as 1 cubic centimeter which weighs 1 gram. Really, 1 cubic centimeter of matter weighs as many grams as the number of it in the periodic system. I'd say it's very much better than ounces and stuff.</blockquote>I won't argue with this, I think you are spot on.Since ease of use in everyday life is dependent on if you are used to a measurement or not, you can't say that something is inherently more practical or not when it comes to everyday life. I have no intuitive idea how tall someone is when she is 5'2", I have to convert it into centimeters first. I know, though, that when something is increasing in size to a large degree, I can always convert to a higher unit just by adding a prefix and removing three zeroes.It's an interesting discussion, I have never met someone defending the imperial system before <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=":)" /> It's always nice to broaden your horizon in this kind of stuff. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />[/QUOTE]

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