[thelist] (OT) Looking for info on units of measurement

[Gary Bland]

Mark Howells wrote:
>>BTW, on re-reading the originating email, I think the goal might of been a
>>site
>>with a list of units by country, i.e. USA uses the imperial system, Canada
>>uses
>>metric, etc., rather than a list of all possible units without any division by
>>where they might be used.
>
>
> Thanks to everyone for the conversion suggestions, but the above is correct.

The above is not correct. The USA does not use imperial system. The USA
uses American National Standards. If you try to do measurements here
based on BIS you will have a mess.

> We have a project here is Switzerland, where the client thinks it's a waste
> of time including distance details in miles because "nobody uses miles
> anymore".

There are over 250 people in the USA that still use miles.

Gary

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