"graham" > wrote in message
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> On 08/10/2015 5:56 AM, Gary wrote:
>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>> No, you're not. I'd love to see the U.S. abandon the old system,
>>> even if it were just a soft conversion.
>>>
>>> Isn't plywood thickness actually sized in mm now?
>>
>> Not in my area. Still see 1/4", 1/2", 3/4" plywood. I agree that the
>> metric is more efficient but it would take several generations to
>> change to that in the US.
>>
> It would be less than that. If kids are taught it in school without
> converting into footric at the same time, they will only think in metric.
> When I moved to Australia almost 45 years ago, the met office announced
> that "as of Monday, all temperatures will be given in Celsius." One soon
> got used to it by being forced to associate the weather with a particular
> number - which is all it is.
> Distances and sizes are more difficult to accommodate if one has been
> raised in the old system.
> In cooking it's a bind because my oven is graduated in Foreignheit,
> whereas many of my baking books use Celsius.

For me too, but I have an online converter.

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