03-30-2007, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: New England
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Originally Posted by WagnerX5
I've yet to understand why the public ed system in the US doesn't do metric along with standard measurements from the jump with grade school children. Then we could eventually phase out "standard".
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I'm an engineering student and I would say we use 40% metric and 60% imperial (standard) system. Funny but all of my professors prefer metric. Metric system based on the speed of light in an absolute vacuum and imperial system based on foots, elbows, fingers, eyeballs  … soo outdated.
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