The current system is not perfect, but it works and everybody uses it! In fact, that's what I learned in school and I wouldn't want anybody telling me that I'm wrong because I feel that using arbitrarily the term "kilo" for something else than 10^3 is great!
It's like those units: miles, gallons and inches! Everybody uses that ! Converting to the so-called "Metric System" would be such a waste, 'cause that's not what we learned in school... No country would be as dumb as to take such a decision...
Oh wait, they all did except for Burma, Liberia, and the United States... damn French people...
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The current system is not perfect, but it works and everybody uses it! In fact, that's what I learned in school and I wouldn't want anybody telling me that I'm wrong because I feel that using arbitrarily the term "kilo" for something else than 10^3 is great! It's like those units: miles, gallons and inches! Everybody uses that ! Converting to the so-called "Metric System" would be such a waste, 'cause that's not what we learned in school... No country would be as dumb as to take such a decision... Oh wait, they all did except for Burma, Liberia, and the United States... damn French people...