Where precision is important, for example in medicine, in science in general,
and in the military, the metric system is used in the US. Whether a bottle of
Coke is 1 litre or 1 quart is irrelevant.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 8 Mar 2019, at 20:10, Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
> When I was in high school in the 1970s, we were introduced to the metric
> system, with the threat that we HAD to learn it, because we'd be switching to
> it ANY DAY NOW! I thought, "Oh, this is so cool! I can't wait for the
> glorious transition!"
>
> It never happened. I gave up waiting for the change in 2005, and moved to a
> saner country. :-)
>
> Jan
>
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