[USMA:34582] Re: FW: What is stopping metrication?

[Pat Naughtin]

Title: Re: [USMA:34581] Re: FW: What is stopping metrication?

Dear Phil,

You might like to consider an article that I wrote on this subject after I returned from the USA earlier this year. You can find it at: http://www.metricationmatters.com/articles.html and scrolling down to the pdf file, 'Costs of non-metrication'.

Cheers,

Pat Naughtin

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on 2005-09-21 17.52, Philip S Hall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Jim Elwell wrote:
>> And, to be sure, nothing ever posted on this forum has convinced me we
>> "need" to do it quickly, since such posts never address the costs of
>> metricating.
>
> Have you considered Jim, the suggestion, which I think has been mentioned
> before, that metricating slowly makes it more expensive?
>
> I can't offer chapter and verse evidenceof the true cost of these things but
> I am prepared to believe that working in a situation of partial metrication,
> and so having to cope with dual measures is wasteful. Hence the longer it
> goes on the more it will cost.
>
> We have to face up to the cost of metrication sure, but unless we believe
> that the short term costs will be outweighed by the longer term savings how
> can we sell the idea to businesses?
>
> Phil Hall
>