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What are the advantages of using imperial units of measurement?

None. Not a single one. No one uses them anymore, apart from Americans, Liberians, and the Burmese. (I know or have met Canadian who still want Imperial. Just because Canada is metric; which by the way was forced upon us against our will on 16 March 1982 with-out so much as a democratic vote. Does not mean that everbody in Canada is metric.

I mean, metric is based on the number 10, so converting is easy. 4kg = 4,000g. whereas 4lb = 64 ounces

Or take distance: 1000mm = 1m. 1000m = 1km. versus 12 inches = 1 foot. (random number) feet = mile = weird number furlongs. Or chains, or something.

In summary, there is no advantage, and the sooner you and your brethren realise this and adopt the metric system, the sooner engineers around the world can stop wasting half their day converting whenever they have the misfortune to have American design standards imposed on them.

(I assume the questioner is American because the Burmese don't speak English and the Liberians have limited internet access and no one else would have to ask a question with such an obvious answer.)

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