I won’t think anyone was trying to say that any metric unit nation would convert to imperial (unless I missed something). It’s just unfortunate that it is so difficult to get imperial nations to convert to metric since it would make life easier for the very people who refuse to change (in the long term of course, short term would be chaos).
Quite true, and I certainly hope we are.moving further away fro the imperial system.
I am sorry I slid into a rant about the imperial system, but my initial motive was to show that for historical reasons, there is a lot more arbitrary choices in the imperial system then the metric system.
I won’t think anyone was trying to say that any metric unit nation would convert to imperial (unless I missed something). It’s just unfortunate that it is so difficult to get imperial nations to convert to metric since it would make life easier for the very people who refuse to change (in the long term of course, short term would be chaos).
Quite true, and I certainly hope we are.moving further away fro the imperial system.
I am sorry I slid into a rant about the imperial system, but my initial motive was to show that for historical reasons, there is a lot more arbitrary choices in the imperial system then the metric system.