Yup, and it's a darned shame. Jefferson got us away from the braindead mixed base money system, and tried to move us to a decimal measurement system of his own design, but Congress didn't act, and so we're stuck with the equally braindead imperial measurement system, with units based on dead kings' feet or arms or whatever.
Our present system may be anachronistic, but it's ours...I simply did not like the way the Metric System was being forced down our throats. It was just too European Union-esque fer me.
FReegards...MUD