The world did not go metric for the metric system's inner intellectual beauty.
Rather, they adopted this system because it solves a large number of MAJOR
PRACTICAL measurement problems.
Renaming the kilogram, deprecating the liter, etc. may be intellectually
attractive, but they solve no real practical problems. How much does the
"kilo" prefix on the kg cost humanity per year? Nothing.
I for one do not advocate such changes.
John
I suggest that most countries go metric when they find that most of their trading partners are already metric. The export trade of the United Kingdom with metric countries reached 50% of its
total export trade in 1965, and that portion of its export trade was growing. In that year the Federation of British Industries urged the Government to convert the country to the metric system.
