>>>>Realy? I think in that case you should stay away from a case like solution. This requires a table with the factors.
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>>>Table wouldn't work. You don't have the imperial:metric case, where one would simply apply a factor (or divisor, in the other direction) and get a number. In several cases you get two numbers on the imperial side - six stone four pounds, five feet two inches, six inch and 3/8 (which they write with a minus sign between but it's not really a subtraction, it's addition). Only Celsius (of whom they never heard, they think the guy's name was Centigrade) vs Fahrenheit is simple.
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>>And then, imagine, Fahrenheit was a german. The guy who disliked to do negative numbers so he chooses the coldest thing he could imagine "for practical reasons" and the body temperature of a healty human person. Complete fail. PalmFace. Doing maths in factors of 10 might not be great wisdom - but better then that anyway. To keep this must be something religious.
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>Religiously sticking to the "nobody's gonna tell us how to do things" mantra. And then telling everybody else how to do things.
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>We've always had the same size spoons as you - the coffee spoons being about 2/3 of the size of american tea spoons. Now I have both sizes, because these larger ones have appeared on the market here (all made in China, of course), and that's in sets of four, not six. Ah, the Chinese are making them in sets of four because they are packing them for american market, and it doesn't pay to do different packaging, right. And then in a posh shop in Belgrade I want to buy a set of shallow plates for the salad, and they come in sets of four. From Germany.

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Four is a common home plus two guests. I get two sets - this is better then to have only one guest :) Not a bad choice. Only the dishwasher does not fit to those numbers, but htis is a problem anyway..