Steve Holdoway wrote: > Britain actually went metric in 1965, 4 years before New Zealand. > Surprising it did at all since it was invented by the French (: I > think the only (major?) non-metric country left in the world is the > US. The only hangover that's in common usage is the measurement of
The USA went metric during the Ford administration. Really. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act But nobody told Lockheed Martin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
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