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What's wrong with the metric system? It's a lot easier. For example: One Kilometer (Km) is 1000 Meters. One Meter is 100 Centimeter, and one Centimeter is 10 Millimeter.

I have no idea without looking it up how many yards, or feet are in a Mile. I do know that a foot is 12 inches, or 30 centimeter (cm)

BTW, I doubt very much that was the reason your ancestors left Europe.

I was being a bit sarcastic, actually. I do that too often as my age advances, and without a warning label. When I was in high school everyone hated the metric system because the government was basically trying to force it on us. The government should know that if it wants the public to hate something, they should force it on them.

But seriously, instead of standard multiples of 10, isn't it easier to remember that there are 5,280 feet in a mile, 12 inches in a foot, and 16 ounces in a pound (or is it 12?)? No wait, that was sarcasm again. Sorry.

I actually prefer the metric system while measuring or calculating things. I never use the inches side of the ruler anymore. So there.

And my family left Europe because they were being rounded up and killed by Russians. My great grandmother who lived to be 102 recited from memory to me the story of how they were lined up in a ditch and shot because they refused to be conscripted in some war, I don't know which one. Who would want to fight for the Russians? They were Germans, given some land in Russia in order to farm it. And then that happened. Never trust the Russians.

What's wrong with the metric system? It's a lot easier. For example: One Kilometer (Km) is 1000 Meters. One Meter is 100 Centimeter, and one Centimeter is 10 Millimeter.

There's nothing wrong with a metric system for some measurements. Our country was the first to implement it and were smart enough to keep it to our money.

Metric works great with multiplication by 10 but doesn't work well with division or doubling.

Metric doesn't work with will measurements of 12 which divides by 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6. (Note 12" to a foot, 144 to a gross).

Metric doesn't work well with doubling; 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc. (Note 16 oz. to a pound, 32 oz. to a quart). It's especially found in computer processor speeds and operating systems; 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit, etc.

“Metric is easier”
That’s a quote I agreed with for a very long time.
Then I watched a couple of YouTube videos on Fraction ‘tricks’.
Our current system is built around the use of fractions. I hated fractions as a youth and didn’t see much point in them as a young adult. When I got to the point where I was teaching my kids I still didn’t quite get them.
Then I bought a speed square and noticed that I only used a small part of the markings available, so I looked it up. What an amazing tool!
Anyway, it showed me that there was more to fractions than I was ever taught.
That’s where the problem is - at some point they stopped teaching fractions, OR, due to the diminished role of trades, the education of fractions for those trades fell through the floor.
Once you learn to use them and associated tricks around their use you understand the genius of our ancestors in using them. They are faster than decimal when in regular use without a calculator. (4X.125 vs. 4X1/8)