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If you are going to talk metric you should stay metric.

This converting is B.S.

Europeans have a weight which they refer to as a pound(500 g)

The English pound which is used in N.A. is (454 g.)

Not that that makes any sense. Somebody probably picked up a hand sized rock to pound another and his siblings used the same rock.

Lets divide it into 16ths and call them ounzes.

Metric does have some rhyme. They used water as the universal measure. 1 gram of water makes a small cube 1cm x 1cm x 1cm(1 cubic centimeter) 10 cubic cm(or 1000 cubes)=1 kilogram(1 thousand grams). Water is the same everywhere so the container is the same everywhere.

There was a deviation when it came to measuring gallons. English(and Canadian) gallon was 160oz. US is 128 oz.

The auto manufacturers used this to their advantage quoting their MPG on their vehicles in Canadian gallons, making many drivers wonder why they could never achieve the quoted MPG. except in a tailwind going downhill(all the time).

Devious eh?

With the Canadians going metric...I don't "think" that the US manufacturers went to the English gallon model...because I believe England has gone metric finally.

Ask your math teacher why should you convert. Read the meter at the gas pump. You pay what goes into the tank or the weight that is on the scale.

It is up to scale manufacturers to get it right.

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