The Burdens That Standards Bring--Roger Dickeson

Prime example: the inch, foot, yard and acre are standards in the United States. Try, just try, to change to the metric measure standard in use by most of the rest of the modern world. We've tried and failed to change to a system that is far more effective. We are slaves of a legacy growing out of the measure of some ancient king's arm from nose to finger tip. We suffer a gallon of gas, a quart of milk, a pound of paper, miles per hour rather than kilometers, Fahrenheit rather than Centigrade temperature measures, and we have to instruct our calculators and computers to round off any conversion calculations beyond X decimal points.