Your statement is true on this case. But let's face facts. That type of scale is more a novelty now-a-days then one a person would buy for practical use. A modern, electronic, and digital scale would be perfectly suited for metric sizes and also much faster then having to play with little weight pieces, that can become lost or damaged. Also, a modern metric scale would display the result in strictly decimal fashion, whereas an imperial version would have to display to decimal pounds, which is useless to someone wanting to know the pounds and the ounces. And if it were programmed to display that, it would require a complex LED display.
I have no idea if you actually plan to use this device or if it was bought purely as a decoration. I would guess the latter. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2004-02-29 12:34 Subject: [USMA:29032] metric products > For all you "metric is infinitely superior to colloquial" types, here is a > case where colloquial is better: the factors-of-2 progression, with the > wonderful 2^4 ratio of ounces to pounds, makes using the colloquial > weights easier and faster to use, plus only 7 weights to 9 weights for > approximately the same mass range.
