Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

[Frank S]

But the metric system is too confusing for most of us?

I must have paid better attention in school when I first started learning about the metric system it must have been somewhere around the mid 60's the one thing I figured out right away was metrics followed out monetary counting using the pennies as mm dimes as Cm, dollars as meters and the 1000.00 dollar bill as the kilometer