My own personal opinion is that currency and measures are so different
that I could never support LSD (or a return to it).
Very few people would. My point is that once they've gotten used to
metric units, very few people would want to go back to imperial either.
Unlike the everyday
usage of measures by ordinary people base-10 currency makes
computerisation of shopping, currency conversion, taxation, etc much
easier.
But dealing with calculations in measurement is also made easier by
metric units. Consider for example the hoops that carpet shops had to
go through by measuring rooms in feet and inches, and then converting
it to square yards to compute the price. So much easier if you use meters.
I would not think it would be seen as
Brussels interfering as most countries never even converted to a decimal
currency - it simply wasn't 'prequelled' if that makes sense.
Not really. Before the Americans introduced decimal currency, pretty
much all of Europe and most of the world had peculiar multiples of
subunit to currency unit. It is only because the transition happened so
long ago that decimal currency seems like it was always there (outside
our two countries which were late joiners).
The fact is that it is decimalization that is at the heart of both the
currency reform and the metric system, and both demonstrate the
superiority of a system in which unit relationships are in harmony with
the base numbering system.
Tom Wade
