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11-19-2011, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Nyororin View Post
Err, I think you misunderstood. No one was saying that inches or miles were illogical. Just that it 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?
Hmm... I suppose you're right, but I actually do know those things. BUT, that's only because I was taught that in elementary when we were studying metric units. We had to learn that material to pass.

I do understand what you're getting at, and I have to say you're right, and the other asker. I misunderstood at first what he was saying.
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