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“Temperature under the metric system is just great if you are a scientist.

75 degrees F is 23.888888888888914 degrees C

And

80 degrees F is 26.666666666666686 degrees C

Metric is just so handy”

Of course, I seriously doubt you could tell the difference between 23.9 C and 24 C, or 26.7 C and 27 C. Somehow the entire rest of the world manages to muddle by with those units...

But, by all means cling to your silliness. :-)

It is not just the decimal place that bothers me but the small variance of range between levels of daily heat.

Not to mention that magnitude of 26.7 degrees does not really seem correct when your sweating outside.

For non scientific daily use degrees F are great.

Not every metric number works well for all applications of life. Personally I think Temperature for daily use is one where it doesn’t.

In engineering the metric system is the better of the two...Electrical components data sheets are 95% measured in millimeters and not in thousandths. Each and every mil or thousandth measurement from 0.000 all the way to 0.999 can be converted EXACTLY to 4 decimals in millimeters. Not so the other way...For example: 0.036th is exactly 0.9144mm,
but 0.12mm is 0.004724409449th. This would be rounded off in the inch (thousandths) world to 0.005 which is close but NOT accurate. This procedure can have a cumlative effect over increments and cause a part to be way off in ccuracy.

I was involved in metrology (measurement science) for a number of years and am acquainted with both systems. The Metric system is much easier to deal with and, when converting measurements from English to Metric, the conversion results are not resolvable. An example of the ease in conversions within the Metric system is in converting from meters to centimeters, centimeters to millimeters, etc, etc. The same applies to other measurements within the Metric system such as mass and volume. Such conversion ease does not exist within the English system.

I suspect though, that the English system will be around for a long time. Those who come after us in this country will be burdened with a measurement system whose length measurements, for example, were originally based on a royal decree that the "foot" measurement would be based on the average length of the male foot in one instance and twelve "barleycorns" in another. I have no idea what a barleycorn is, so please don't ask. And, yes, those men had unusually long feet in the days of that royal decree.

So, my wish for all of you who so tightly embrace the English measurement system is that you measure carefully and live long. And when converting from English to Metric and vice versa, do so very carefully. Instances wherein your life may hang in the balance abound.