The ‘joy’ of being a child in school in the UK in the 70s and early 80s is that I am ‘dual fuel’ – I can work in both metric and imperial, and centigrade and Fahrenheit. The ‘problem’ comes when you visit the US and find a pint and a gallon are different sizes to those in the UK (16floz/128floz in US to 20/160floz in the UK). So then a gallon becomes 3.785 litres in the US and 4.546 litres in the UK. Now if THAT didn’t send Sally over the edge, nothing would!
The ‘joy’ of being a child in school in the UK in the 70s and early 80s is that I am ‘dual fuel’ – I can work in both metric and imperial, and centigrade and Fahrenheit. The ‘problem’ comes when you visit the US and find a pint and a gallon are different sizes to those in the UK (16floz/128floz in US to 20/160floz in the UK). So then a gallon becomes 3.785 litres in the US and 4.546 litres in the UK. Now if THAT didn’t send Sally over the edge, nothing would!