>Could you imagine trying to explain the Imperial System to
>someone brought up on Metric one?
>-16 ounces in a pound, 14 pounds in a stone (how many stones in a ton?).
160
>-12 inches in a foot,
>3 feet in a foot
sounds more like foot in mouth than foot in foot
> 500 odd yards in a mile.
Obviously VERY odd yards. Try 1760.
>It's so much easier when everything is based on mutliples of ten,
The above merely proves it.
GL