[ RadSafe ] Metric system introduce in UK in the early seventies.

[parthasarathy k s]

The switch over to the metric system in Uk was fairly swift. I was then a student. Along with the metric syatem their currency also changed. Those experienced with penny, shilling and pound has to contend with pence; we perpetually felt that after every purchase either we are overcharged or undercharged!
   
  I still have a colourful poster with bold letters stating the various units of conversion. 
   
  Regards
  K.S.Parthasarathy

Dimiter Popoff <didi at tgi-sci.com> wrote:
  I suspected something like that :-).
My guess is that the radiation units are those taking about the
least effort to switch. I doubt there are many people who
grew up in the US and think millimeters rather than fractions
of an inch, litres rather than gallons/pints (whatever....:-),
kmph rather than mph etc...
The chip industry has made the move - they just specify
dimensions both in millimters and inches, and, well, we all
use Volts, Amps, Watts etc.
I do wonder how it is with temperatures. Those of the
listmembers doing lab work must be used to degree Celsius (and/or
Kelvin), however, when it comes to weather - do they still think
Fahrenheit? My guess is they have developed a precise
calculator to do the conversion a long time ago (I have
to struggle every time I am confronted with degree F,
although evenually I manage it... :-).

Dimiter


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> -------Original Message-------
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> Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] SI; Now or never?
> Sent: Feb 17 '06 06:04
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> My understanding is that the first bill to change the US to SI units was introduced in the early 1800s. Still working on the details....
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> Andy
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> Subject: [ RadSafe ] SI; Now or never?
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> When will the US convert to the SI units? If I recall correctly, the
> conversion was going to be completed in ~1990.
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> What is the current status?
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