I have a friend who was in the emergency room a few weeks ago and could only answer height and weight in centimeters and kilograms. The nurse replied, "Great, thanks" as though she was used to people answering in metric units.

Pierre Abbat wrote:

If someone at the hospital asks a patient his height and mass, the form specifying metric units for these, and he answers in feet and pounds, what happens? Does she ask him again, specifying meters and kilograms, or does she convert the figures?

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