>>But why - it's so logical: if one foot has twelve inches, and one yard has three feet (funny animal, eh?), then how many ounces go into a pound? Of course, sixteen. Given all that, how many feet in a mile?
>>It's so easy to understand (neither do I :).
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>feet? yard? gallons? pounds??? Stop, you´re killing me!!! :)

Claudio;

There is a long list of such measurements. It is laughable and when you study the history of how these measurements came about it is truly hilarious. Things like “short ton and long ton”. Rods and Acres.

Historically, the ounce was 1/12 of a pound and converted to 1/16 of a pound. A nautical mile is 1.1508 miles – is that why boat trips seem longer?

We are smarter than the British when it comes to being billionaires! In the United States one billion = 1,000,000,000 and to the British 1,000,000,000,000 is a billion. Thus you can see how we “get rich quicker” – we just adjust the rules. That would be a trillion to us.

Tom