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Originally posted by rallem:
but they didn't invent the numbering system because that was done by the Greeks and they made it so every 10 to the 3rd digit received a new name like kilo, mega, and giga

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but just because they chose to be like the French and use the metric system does not mean we have to.

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I have seen a few shows on the BBC America and now see that they have reverted back to using the British System of Weights and Measures

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Originally posted by traveler:
Back in the early Seventies, we in the United States, were told we would go metric in ten years. But we are a stubborn lot and very few industries have done this. When I took a physics, course some years ago, we used metric. So it may take a few more decades, but it is coming.

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Two farthings = one ha’penny. Two ha’pennies = one penny. Three pennies = A thruppeny bit. Two thrupences = a sixpence. Two sixpences = one shilling, or bob. Two bob = a florin. One florin and one sixpence = half a crown. Four half crowns = ten bob note. Two ten bob notes = one pound (or 240 pennies). One pound and one shilling = one guinea.

The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.

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