>Thank you Alex, I actually got too busy working for a few minutes here to do anything else.
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>Looks like the US had everything scheduled for conversion long ago, but then it was very watered-down not long back, for whatever reasons (cost, complaints from political lobbyists?).
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>I see a new term "hard=metric," meaning the end of the dual-system, apparently. So I guess we are "soft-metric" currently.
Unfortunately, to a lesser degree, non-metric units are used here in Bolivia, too. For instance, we use pounds (our pounds have 460 grams, which is a little more than the US-pound), "arroba" = 25 pounds, "quintal" = 100 pounds (ounces, however, are not used). Inches are sometimes used instead of cm., and to a lesser degree, ft.
Most units are SI, though.
Which reminds me that in no country the SI unit for temperature (Kelvin) is in common use! This one seems to be reserved for scientific applications.
And then, of course, we have the continuos confusion of people saying that something "weighs" so-and-so many kilograms.
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)
