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Old 01-03-2013, 09:40 PM  
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Originally Posted by Killswitch View Post
what do we gain from switching to 100% metric like the rest of the world?
FOR STARTERS - millions of labor hours doing various conversions that are unnecessary. Not even those that Minte posted, but also converting imperial to imperial. Instead of doing something in 1 second you choose to do it in few seconds. And millions of operations like these daily/weekly. On top of that add bigger chances of making a mistake doing those calculations (not everybody is as smart as you are and also even smart people do mistakes)

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Originally Posted by Minte View Post
And a lot of mistakes still are made in manufacturing because of it.
- a lot of mistakes and that is just one field. I wonder how many mistakes are done in total across all industries.

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