Jerra

True. I used to have but not any more.

Hells bells that's a long run in, trading in metric measurements was first allowed in 1864 The florin was introduced around 1849 as a start to metricating money. Don't be silly.

Of course for such things using the original measurement is I would suggest vital. However you don't seem to have the sort of personality that yearns for a long outdated measurement system and tries to deride it by always referring to it as foreign. Yet he always says he isn't a xenophobe. The first point is such comparisons shouldn't be necessary 50 years after the UK went metric. You wouldn't be visualising the difference between square inches or for that matter inches square (that confused many of my pre 1974 pupils) against square millimetres You would be comparing sq mm to square mm. In answer to your questions 14,100 sq mm is more than double 6 square inches A pound force is around 4and a half times a Newton.

I am puzzled. You had to be educated in metric (the regulations and OFSTED) said so yet you think in imperial. How and why? Old dinosaurs like myself who were educated in imperial and almost middle aged when UK went metric could struggle but somebody educated in metric it seems strange.

I can't understand why after half a century we still have any use of imperial measurements at all. Anyone under about 60 has been educated purely in metric so why faff about with outdated illogical meaurements.

Why would anybody in their right mind want to handicap UK manufacturers by insisting on non metric measurements. There are currently only three countries in the world that don't use the metric system Liberia, Myanmar and USA. The USA have I suppose an excuse currently in view of the rest of the insane decisions being made.