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Originally Posted by vikkaboo
Regarding what you said about the American metric system: I think it does make sense. Which would be easier to envision? A child that is 3 feet tall, or a child that is 36 inches tall? Or I could say, "My house is 5,280 feet from the school." Wouldn't it be easier to say my house is a mile from school? We need inches to define things that are smaller than a foot (obviously).
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Err, I think you misunderstood. No one was saying that the concept of inches or miles were illogical. Just that the system itself really seems so to those who use the metric system. The system used in the US is imperial, not metric, by the way.
10mm = 1cm, 100cm = 1m, 1000m = 1km, etc
If you were asked out of the blue how many feet there were in a mile, would you know? If you were asked how many... umm... pints in a gallon, would you be able to answer without intensive thought?