Mnementh said:
OK, I thought you already have it. Looking it up I see you have officially introduced the metric system, but adoption is not universal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom |
Yeah it's daft.
If I am measuring something I nearly always use metric, especially if I am doing calculations with the figures, but despite being born well after metrication I will sometimes estimate things in inches, or occasionally feet&inches. And tend to state my weight in stone. Also for road distances/speed I used miles & mph, though that's more because our roads use and don't show any km so it avoids me having to convert.
That said i don't think the metric system is perfect, it's just better than imperial in most situations. (If we all learnt maths in base 12 instead of decimal it would make things way easier for us)
For reference I think my room is about 2m x 3.5m, roughly 80-90sqft
