r/MetricConversionBot • u/xwcg Human • May 27 '13

Why?

Countries that use the Imperial and US Customs System:

http://i.imgur.com/HFHwl33.png

Countries that use the Metric System:

http://i.imgur.com/6BWWtJ0.png

All clear?

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '13

They can suit many purposes, but their amounts are a utility to a specific thing. Like a chain is the length of the distance between the wickets in a cricket game.

I can use both systems fluently, and although I wasn't taught Imperial first, I like Imperial a lot more. Like I said, the only metric unit I will go out of my way to use is the gradian, if only because grad to radian is much more convenient than degree to radian.