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When you work in civil engineering you measure in feet and decimal parts of a foot. In the US carpenters many others in the construction trades work in feet and inches. By law all construction of Federal properties is to be done using the Metric system, but folks tend to cheat a little and write the numbers in metric but use feet when talking about things. I was working laying out a federal court house when a issue arose on some curbing. The contractor mentioned a measured distance in feet and I asked if he was talking inches or tenths. Dude took off his hard has and said fuck I do not even know anymore.

 

I would like to see the US finally get with the program on using a worldwide system and while I certainly appreciate what a hassle the transition would be I do not see it getting any easier with time.

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