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| Originally Posted by Ace Mercury I think the worst thing about the metric system is that there are too many syllables in commonly used units. Example: centimetre vs. inch.  Still, for all practical uses, it's a better system. And the F to C conversion is to subtract 32 and multiply by 4/9. Luckily enough, they're both linear scales. |
That's only in spoken language though, in written languages there are abbreviations for all common units: cm is the one for centimetre, so in this case it's actually shorter than inch.