It might not be confusing to Canadians. Canadians continue to measure their height in FFU (feet/inches), but measure road distances in kilometres. Automobile gauges, road signs and maps all use kilometres, so this is a familiar unit. Miles would be strange to them as it can not me associated with day to day living.
Canadians call their mixture of SI and FFU SImperial. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Predrag Lezaic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2004-06-06 22:24 Subject: [USMA:30063] Mixing FFU and metric on canadian radio > I heard something really bizzare today on the radio. It was a Canadian > radio station that had some show with bunch of scientists answering > questions. One question was: "How far would 6 foot tall person see if > conditions were perfect and terrain was flat?". The answer was something > like: "They would see 5 kilometers in the distance. And if the person > was six inxches shorter they would see aproximately quarter of a > kilometer closer. " This was a real hodge-podge combination of units > which was obviously driven by a question from the audience which was in > FFU. It does make it for a really confusing conversion for someone who > doesn't know one or the other unit of measurement. > > Predrag > > PS I only tuned in to it for a short time and right at the end while > driving so I have no idea what station it was or who the people were. > >
