What Do Liberia, Myanmar and The United States Have In Common?
None of them have adopted the metric system.
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Yes, but you can still buy beer in pints in Britain and Ireland. The EU caved in to the will of the people.
Hell, our kids and most of their parents can't even deal with inches, feet, miles, pints, quarts, and gallons. How could we possibly expect them to even pronounce or understand something so multi-sylabbic as "centimeter"?
Fermi, I read the story on NYTimes.com. I'd actualy thought that we had converted, kind of some years back.
Life Hiker, I'm not much good at conversion; though, if I had to, I'd be able to tough it out.
To both of you, and others, I know Canada used to use and Imperial Gallon which was five fourths of our's, is that still the case, and is that what is used in the U.K.?
Another thing. I love the word hectare. That isn't either system is it?
Hectare is what people in the metric use instead of an acre. Basically, they measure in terms of square meters and hectares.
Well Paul, that shows that I'm not measuremently-abled.
Next question, liters are smaller than quarts, right?
Scientists converted a long time ago, so I have been using metric since college. We use all metric units at work.
I have enough problems trying to find my way around learning stuff about blogs let alone tossing new data on me that has to do with weights, distance, anything mathematical. Goes above my head and below my knees!
No, actually a liter is an ounce and change larger.
Dave, litres are bigger than American quarts, but smaller than Imperial ones.
Imperial pints are 20 ounces (560 ml) but when we converted we started to get 500 ml pints of beer.
A damned shame, I might add!
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