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1795 You know, as it is called in France chetvertfuntovik?
-No
-Tell Them, Vince
- Royal Chiiz "!?
You know why?
- Perhaps because of the metric system
. - Yes you - nerd !!! ..
Yes, the US has not switched to the metric system.
After independence, the United States tried to bring order to this voprose.No they rested, as often happens in a financial issue. Thomas Jefferson, who served under George Washington as US Secretary of State, approved of the decimal system. But it turned out that define the metric unit of length would be impossible without sending a delegation to France. And it was a costly affair.
Then a lot of things happened - the cooling of relations with France, ocheerednye attempts, which broke on the "see no need to change anything»
. And today a significant part of the largest corporations in the world are located in the United States. Their products are competitive in the world market despite the unusual inches and pounds. What's unusual! The whole world is very surprised if one day another diagonal screen smartphone will be available in the usual from school centimeters, not inches, seemingly descended from the pages of a history book. This means that the Americans have no reason to abandon their traditional systems of weights and measures.
