The Metric System- Why Does it Suck?!
... chaotic collection of units before (Speer, “metric system”). How many units were there before the metric system? Almost every country in the world uses this system except the U.S. and Great Britain (Williams, Jennings “metric” 121). I bet that we don’t use it so it does not mess up our normal customs. Also I found that Thomas Jefferson presented the U.S. with a system also based on decimals in 1790(Iona, “metric” 70b). Why didn’t the U.S. take the system from one of the founding fathers? The metric system was finally legalized in 1795(Iona, “metric” 70b). Why did it have to be legalized? I also have some other cool and interesting facts to share. The original length and mass of the system have been superseded by other, which have been accepted by international agreement (Williams, Jennings“metric”121). Why can’t the just stick to the original plans if that is what they agreed with? Only seventeen nations had adopted the metric system by 1875(Barrows “metric” The World Book 441). If this was such a great system then why did only seventeen nations have the system in use after almost a hundred years? Some of the basic measures are km, hm, dam, m, dm, cm, mm (Barrows “metric” The World Book 438). If these are some of the basic measurements then how much more are there? And if there is more, wha...