[Jewelry making - Article 00497] - [Orchid] Metric system

[Janet Yang]

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    Whatever happened to the (U.S.) goal of adopting the metric system
    by the of the (20th) century? We're not behind schedule; the project
    seemes to have been abandoned completely. Elementary schools merely
    teach the existence of the metric system. When it comes to actually
    measuring things, the kids use inches, pounds, and quarts. 

    I'm not good with numbers, and working with measurements like
    3/16ths of an inch, 8 ounces (is that troy or regular?), etc., just
    makes calculations more confusing and prone to error. 

    Metric systems are more convenient and I am determined to use them,
    even though it means making a lot of INconvenient conversions to and
    from the U.S. standard. (But heck, we have to perform conversions
    all the time because some industry standards are not based on inches
    and ounces. For example, the Brown & Sharpe gauges don't have nice,
    round numbers or logical increments.) 

    Are metric wire gauges used in Europe? 

Janet
whose left thumb is exactly 2cm wide


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