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    Quote Originally Posted by rgsparber View Post
    I agree that the base distance is not important. It is all about the multipliers to get to larger and smaller distances. The choice is, for example, 5280 versus 1000.

    Quick, how many feet in 3.5 miles?

    OK, how many meters in 3.5 KM?

    Rick
    Bingo.

    The greatest facility Metric gives you is ease of calculation.

    Good old dividers were used in times past hence we have 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64 and dividers are getting kind of useless.

    But it worked for what it was meant for.

    I use both. Grew up with both.

    There are 3 countries officially inches in the world. America is the largest. Lest I say more.

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