Units
I'm having a bit of a rant, what do you folks think.
Units....
- I routinely do sums in metres, feet, inches, millimetres, kg, kgf, lb,lbf, psi, Pa, litres, US Gallons, °C, °F, K, and on a few unhappy occasions, slugs. I do not complain about this (well, maybe about slugs) I have taken the trouble to learn all of these systems and how to convert between them, I accept that the use of multiple unitary systems is just how the world is - at-least the aviation world.
Yet the education systems (and I fully accept that I'm a product of this myself, but got retrained) in the UK and Europe are hellbent on telling everybody that imperial units are obsolete and shouldn't be used. Something similar (maybe not quite so aggressively) goes on in North America with imperial units - they get really worried if you try and do calcs in Newtons!
Should the world at large just accept that there are different systems in use, and live with it?
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