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Do you work in Imperial or Metric?
Being an Aussie and 52 years of age I was mid school when Australia started the change over from Imperial to Metric (something that even to this day 40 years later isn't even completely instituted). Here we were one day at school learning Imperial and the next we were told to scratch that and start learning Metric. Something that even our teaches struggled with. So a lot of us around my age have always been in a bit of a twilight zone when it comes to both systems. Older people can easily work in Imperial and younger people can easily work in metric because its what they were solely taught.
Ok, after saying all the above I do find working in metric a whole lot easier, but I still work a lot in imperial as well.
I still to this day wish that I'd been taught just the one method.
What's your preference and what were you taught?
Being an Aussie and 52 years of age I was mid school when Australia started the change over from Imperial to Metric (something that even to this day 40 years later isn't even completely instituted). Here we were one day at school learning Imperial and the next we were told to scratch that and start learning Metric. Something that even our teaches struggled with. So a lot of us around my age have always been in a bit of a twilight zone when it comes to both systems. Older people can easily work in Imperial and younger people can easily work in metric because its what they were solely taught.
Ok, after saying all the above I do find working in metric a whole lot easier, but I still work a lot in imperial as well.
I still to this day wish that I'd been taught just the one method.
What's your preference and what were you taught?