In length, old units not much used nowadays are: furlong = 220 yards, chain = 22 yards, rod,pole, or perch = 5.5 yards, link = 1/100 of a chain.
The new coordinates are(3 + the old 'x', 2 + the old 'y')
If it were possible to convert between units of time and units of distance, then you could calculate how many miles old you are.
This is old fashioned measures 144 Units in a Gross
It is a measure of length or distance, using the old Imperial units.
One thousand nine hundred and fifty-one units of time.
Your 16 years is 504,910,816 seconds.
Good old Watts, in bigger volume kilowatts.
because we use the old ways to count things.
It is the "normal" temperature of a human - expressed in old-fashioned measurement units.
It is a measure of mass in the old Imperial system of units.
To explain WHY that statement is true would be almost impossible, because thestatement is false.Measurements are meaningless if standard units are NOT used. They are meaningfulONLY if standard units ARE used. The reason is that in order for your measurementsto mean anything to someone else, he has to know and understand the units of yourmeasurement. It doesn't tell you a thing to know that I'm 2,645.02 time-units old,254 length-units tall, and weigh 6.318 weight-units. You need definitions of thoseunits before you know anything about me.
The US is one of the 3 remaining countries that still use Imperial (old British) units to measure distance. They therefore uses feet, inches and miles. The rest of the world uses the international standard decimal units relating to the Metre.