Is the U.S. the only country?

Question

that has NOT gone metric? Or are there more besides?

sorry if this in the wrong category. It was the best one I could find. I thought of putting it under Mathematics but wasn't sure if anyone there would know.

Answer 1

No, we are not alone, but we are one of the very few left not on the metric system. We did make a valiant attempt to go metric in the 70's and 80's, but no one wanted to change.

Answer 2

In a way the U.S. has already gone metric. All countries use metric now. Manufacturing, tool and die work, all science including weather use metric, you never ever have to remember how many cups to make a gallon, metric is intuitive and once you use it, you never want to go back to american. However, what some companies do is put the american equivalent amount on the labels of a finished product but it was manufactured in metric. Have you ever watched a television medical show? The actors all use metric measurements "give the patient 10 cc of saline". About the only thing that hasn't gone fully metric is the mile, the foot yard and acres and for land and using mph for travel, but even there the military uses metric. Almost everyone uses metric tools and parts now, like fasteners, srews, nuts, bolts and fluid measuring and air pressure are metric only. It's just just too easy to make a mistake using a guage that has both american and metric on it, one mistake and you can wreck an expensive peice of machinery as I did once working in a factory during summer vacation. Fortunately for me, my boss had done the same thing once. So in a sense, I would answer all countries, including the United States, now use metric. Once you start weighing things using kilos, you realize how easy it is of how much you have and how much you need without having to translate, everything is in tens.

Answer 3

I can't really think of any reason why it would make much of a difference if we did other than to be like almost every other country. It's not like I'm going to drive over the border into Germany.

Answer 4

Yeah very few countries dont have the metric system. I dont really get it, we should change. No reason not to

Answer 5

yes but only if you count canada as the 51st state

Answer 6

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm