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You don't. But politicians in the few countries that still cling on to the Imperial system have not the will to move on this. Countries with relatively low levels of numeracy have switched successfully so there is absolutely no excuse to cling to a clumsy system - particularly one in which the so called standard measures are not standard (think US gallon and UK gallon).

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