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Room Sizes Only in Metres

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  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 2,187 Forumite
    TBagpuss wrote: »
    And I do think that there are still sufficiently large numbers of people for whom it is a more familiar system, and/or who don't find the conversion easy, that it is sensible of agents to use both, as they are then not excluding any potential clients.

    Whereas I'd be irritated to see imperial measurements, as it'd imply the agents were marketing to the innumerate, and I'd not want them to think that that included me...
  • vectistim
    vectistim Posts: 635 Forumite
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    BillJones wrote: »
    Whereas I'd be irritated to see imperial measurements, as it'd imply the agents were marketing to the innumerate, and I'd not want them to think that that included me...

    It's the innumerate who prefer metric with the mindlessness of a base ten system with a really poor set of factors.
    IANAL etc.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    vectistim wrote: »
    It's the innumerate who prefer metric with the mindlessness of a base ten system with a really poor set of factors.
    Bring back £sd...!
  • Pixie5740
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    vectistim wrote: »
    It's the innumerate who prefer metric with the mindlessness of a base ten system with a really poor set of factors.

    One of the nice things about the metric system is that a litre in the UK is the same as a litre in France, Germany, USA, everywhere. Whereas a gallon in the UK is different to a gallon in the USA.

    I work with barrels on a daily basis but there are so many types of barrels, oil barrels, water barrels, wine barrels, beer barrels...you get the idea. Then you have to account which country the unit is referencing. It leaves a lot of room for people to make mistakes whereas with metric units you are always comparing apples with apples.
  • SternMusik
    SternMusik Posts: 352 Forumite
    edited 9 July 2014 at 10:41AM
    
    
    
    vectistim wrote: »
    It's the innumerate who prefer metric with the mindlessness of a base ten system with a really poor set of factors.

    The base 14 system of stone and pounds has a set of factors equally as bad as base ten, if not worse.
  • purdyoaten
    purdyoaten Posts: 1,159 Forumite
    My son works in a pub part-time and was told by the owner that a 50 litre keg contains about 90 'good' pints. Confusing or what?
    There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who do not. :doh:
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    purdyoaten wrote: »
    My son works in a pub part-time and was told by the owner that a 50 litre keg contains about 90 'good' pints. Confusing or what?
    Since 50 litres is 88 pints, and there'll be some duff in the very bottom (not to mention spillage), I think I've been served "pints" there several times...
  • Waterlily24
    Waterlily24 Posts: 1,328 Forumite
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    TBagpuss wrote: »
    I can (and do) do the conversions, but my personal preference is for Imperial measurements for rooms because I find them easier to visualise. For me, it is mildly irritating to have to convert if I am browsing properties, as it's an extra step I have to take (albeit a small, and easy step)


    And I do think that there are still sufficiently large numbers of people for whom it is a more familiar system, and/or who don't find the conversion easy, that it is sensible of agents to use both, as they are then not excluding any potential clients.


    Same here, as you say conversions are easy but it's a pain to have to do them.
  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 2,187 Forumite
    vectistim wrote: »
    It's the innumerate who prefer metric with the mindlessness of a base ten system with a really poor set of factors.

    Of course it is. It's well known that engineers and scientists just can't get enough of avoirdupois measurements, whereas greengrocers were at the forefront of adopting metric...

    And to answer your moronic point in a second way, it's the requirement of both measurements that suggests innumeracy, I'm happy with either set.
  • Marvel1
    Marvel1 Posts: 7,462 Forumite
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    You can do online conversions.
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