[AT] Supposedly why our old tractors are not metric and a fairly simple tutorial

[Stephen Offiler]

Metric time?  Say 10 metric hours per day, 100 metric minutes per hour...
why don't we do that?

Metric circles?  Why not divide into 100, or 1000 parts rather than 360?

SO

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 9:09 AM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm not sure how accurate this story is but it matches what I had read for
> years.
> https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/04/12/metric-system-usa/
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> If they had listened to Jefferson we would  not be messing with a double
> system, metrics would just be what we use...  The 10 based system can be
> done in  your head (could have saved all those years learning those damned
> fractions)  :-)  and every tool box wouldn't have a fraction to decimal
> conversion chart tucked in somewhere that you can't ever find when you need
> it. Also we would not have to worry about some dead kings thumb size
> getting lost or a bad few years for the barley crop or a lot of other stuff
> they tried to set as standards long ago.
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> This site looks fairly well done and I liked the little section on the
> metric size of a few common objects.
>
> https://www.wikihow.com/Measure-Centimeters?fbclid=IwAR1z77b9GTGRpTD7TM1cH51LA1CKzsTyPJ-n87HsRDmbJv7b5ME7QyCVpbs
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> If you have forgotten how to use your Abacus there is a section on that
> too.  :-)
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