Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

[mklotz]

According to Google, only three countries in the world use the Imperial system of measurement, Liberia, Myanmar and the US. What does that tell you?

The US doesn't use the Imperial system. They use a system termed the 'US customary units'. The US system is based on the Imperial system and shares some units with it but some units differ and units that are not in the Imperial system are included.

Both systems are ridiculously and unnecessarily complex. They vividly demonstrate the stupidity of allowing conventions of particular industries to become part of the measurement system. They were never intelligently designed but rather evolved into the mish-mash they are.

The fact that so many disparate cultures have adopted the intelligently designed metric system is testimony to the need for simplification. Face it - if you can get the Germans and the Italians to agree to use a system designed by the French, it must be good.