Nations That Don't Use The Metric System

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Czar Flavius

Ah, so that explains it's prevalence in countries with double digit IQ citizens.

That's just ignorant.

-Whats 4691 Miles in yards , feet and then in inches?
-Whats 4691 Km in meters , centimeters and then in millimeters?

I can't work it out either but then I haven't been brought up with the system.

Our primary maths system is base 10. Metric is base 10. Imperial is all over the place.

Degrees isn't metric yet there's no uproar about that. If you tried to force everybody to use right angle = 0.25 new degrees I doubt it will be popular... simply because 360 is such a nice number to break off into 180 90 45..

Then we have radians. This is the arguement in reverse.. radians is akin to metric system (mathematically superior, whatever that means) and degrees is akin to imperial (easier to use). I'm sure if you were drilled from birth how to use radians you'd find them easy and second nature - but you're not. Just like the imperial system seems nonsensical to you but is second nature to others.

The only difference is the metric system is now more popular among laymen than radians are. Hopefully we all know that popularity doesn't alone make something better...