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Originally Posted by seiki
Its not that hardlol
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It may not be that hard in theory but in actual practice, it can be a pain in the you know where at times.
I was chatting with my American friend a few months ago. We were talking about our pets and mine is a turtle. She asked me how big the turtle was. I paniced because we had had trouble talking about numbers before. I took out my metric ruler and measured the diameter of the shell. Then I had to go get a calculater to do the division. Now, what am I gonna do with the remainder? Remainders are very easy to treat in the Metric System because the base number is always 10. But in my American frined's system, the base number seems to be 12 (12 inches to a foot. Not 10!!). It took me a few minutes to figure it all out. I finally get back to my PC and tell her the result and apologize for making her wait.
Guess what she said to me. She said, "Thanks for going to all the trouble. You could have just replied in Small/Medium/Large."
