>>>I also use terms like, "Miles per gallon".
>>Which gave me the reason to use Excel... one of those things I can't possibly calculate in my head. Because miles-per-gallon is very counter-intuitive for me. Liters per hundred kilometers, now that's something I understand, simply because of years of use. So I'm tracking my car's consumption in both units, just to get used to these weird Anglo-Saxon ways of measurement.
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>I must say that those metrics are REALLY weird... for someone used to metric measurement, "Miles per gallon" is something unacceptable. :)
>I´ve been to the US on last August, and I need to say that those measurements just messed my braing. <bg>

Claudio;

Having been raised using the English Measurement System, all this seems academic. In engineering college most of what we did concerning the physical world involved the metric system. The metric system is logical and makes calculations easy. With the English system we were always converting to metric.

Our college Physics Professor at U.C. Berkeley could convert apples to oranges! Dr. Paxton was unbelievable! Why do I still remember 28.35 grams = an ounce, along with all those other conversion factors? Will there be no peace of mind? :)

Tom