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Re:It's time for the US to use the metric system by altern8tif on Monday May 29, 2017 @10:28PM (#14442700)
It's fine if you're jumping from one unit to another (ie. inches to feet, feet to yards). But conversion from smaller to larger units require much more (unnecessary) effort.

Eg. For a 1-acre square plot of land, what is the length of its sides in feet?

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Re:It's time for the US to use the metric system by Fjolsvith on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @01:12AM (#14443100)
208.7 by 208.7 feet. Its not hard. Found it on Google:

https://www.infoplease.com/askeds/dimensions-acre

"The acre, by the way, was originally an English unit of measurement that described the area that a yoke of oxen could plow in a day."

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Re:It's time for the US to use the metric system by Doxin on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:39AM (#14445679)
Okay so quickly, without google, how many gallons are there in a cubic yard?

Now for the people who know metric it's fairly trivial to calculate how many liters there are in a cubic meter. A liter is defined as being one cubic decimeter. A decimeter being one step down from a meter means for cubic measurements it's a factor 1000. one cubic meter multiplied by a thousand is 1000 cubic decimeters or, equivalently, 1000 liters.

Note how in both examples you start with nice round numbers. I havent cherry picked a starting point that ends up nicely in metric.

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Re:It's time for the US to use the metric system by altern8tif on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:46AM (#14443562)
That's exactly my point. You shouldn't need Google to help you answer that.
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