My dick, LOL
Badmotor wrote: All I know is that as an Engineer in the manufacturing world the metric system is way easier to understand and use. Trying to explain something to a job shop that you want to change something point one mills or hundred thou when you need a tight tolerance.
Same deal with finance. When I first started trading, fractions were still used for stock prices. When it was announced that the switchover would take place to decimal I did resist it. I thought that it was a scheme for the big boys to put a squeeze on the bid / ask (for those of you who know what that means), and maybe for a bit it did to the day traders. But all in all, it ended up being much much better. Looking back, it was much more difficult to rationalize a price in fractions.
Swing trading is my thing, not day trading, so it was never really too much of an issue for me other then resisting the change itself.
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Grubb Industries wrote: Your correct, but also Metric is never used in lumber and construction , It is always in feet or yards even here in Canada where we have use the Metric system, if you go buy lumber and ask for 3 metres you better take a tape measure with you.
I guess it is not worth changing the standard 4x8 sheet of drywall or plywood it would have caused to much confusion,
It may be a legacy issue since so much of the industry is devoted to remodeling / repair / etc. If the switch happened right now, it would be very difficult to buy something with a good fit. You'd always have to buy up and sand / plane down. Just a thought.
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