As a teacher of some fairly typical American (U.S.) 14 - 15 year olds, I can state without exception that the students do not prefer British units over metric units, because they don't know either system. My attitude is, since they don't know either system, I teach them metrics.
Things I have been amazed to discover they don't know 12 inches in 1 foot 3 feet in 1 yard 5,280 feet in one mile and forget acres, pints, cups, quarts, and so on. Because of the number of computers in use today, they know that K = 1000 (even though in computer use it's 1024) so it gets you a foot in the door compared to just a few years ago. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Adkins Location: 38.00 N, 121.81 W CA, USA, Earth, Sol III
