LogFAQs > #950841524

The main flaw of the metric system in everyday society is that decimeters (an equivalent of feet) are not used as a common measurement. Human height is a great example where meters are too long and centimeters are too short, so decimeters would be perfect to measure it... but no one actually uses them.

Also Fahrenheit > Celsius. Celsius is not easy to convert like other metric units because there is nothing to convert to... For measuring common outdoor temperatures in most of the world (approx 0 to 100 degrees F), Fahrenheit has 101 integers to do this while Celsius only has about half of that. It would be great if someone invented a temperature scale that was designed to measure outdoor temperature, but Fahrenheit is closer to that than Celsius is.

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