I understand that America has used this imperial system that the British forced on them ,but most countries in the world except I believe Liberia,Myanmar and America have ditched this system.In 1947 Australia signed to metric but phased it in about 18 years from 1970 to 1988,so some of older people can understand both systems .Why keep using a system bases on foot and finger measurements when no one has the same foot or finger measurement as the standard ancient English man! Didn’t America kick the English foot soldiers out of the country in 1776 or thereabouts?Even the English have changed their gallon from the wine gallon measure the Americans got from them! Now if we in Australia could get rid of the constitution and governor general imposed still on us and take for example the American bill of rights I would be happy to accept that American advancement! 😊😊😊
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@@josephstratti52 I think the reason for the U.S. not changing is cost. It would be expensive to convert to metric. Jimmy Carter tried to change to metric in the late 70s. It didn't work. The Canadians did it back in the 80s. They also stopped printing one dollar bills and went to coins. They also got rid of the penny. The metric system is so much easier. Maybe some day we will catch up with the rest of the world.