> ... The good news is that the Congress of the United States passed a law in 1865 that we were going metric. This is one of those occasions that the United States is not in a hurry to implement a change.
Well, I understand the inch, etc., are defined in terms of the meter. So in a sense...
However, what is really needed is to use the SI in daily life.
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>One arguement is from the American Society of Industrial Engineers and is related to manufacturing - and a specific is screw threads. English threads are stronger than metric. That is a matter of pitch, threads per mm or inch, etc.
I am not sure I understand: is that an argument
against or
in favor of the SI?
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
