While I agree the OP had nothing to do with metric/imperial, my response does.
I heard today that Thomas Jefferson, as Secretary of State in the 1780s, was to meet with two fellows from France. They were sailing to America to introduce the Metric system to Mr. Jefferson, and were brining a metal rod one meter long and a brass cylinder of one kilogram as visual aids. Their sailing ship was caught in a storm and blown off course. They ended up in the Caribbean, and were captured by pirates, and never made it to America. Had they, one could quite easily see the logical Jefferson presenting this new logical measurement system to the fledgling government, and the wildly anti-Imperials people of the time just might have gobbled it up! Far fewer people here to convert back then, the whole continent may be calculating their tractor fuel efficiencies in hogsheads per hectare, or whatever those metric equivalents are...
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