What system do you use?
By rodveiga
@rodveiga (333)
Portugal
January 13, 2009 8:16am CST
US, Liberia and Burma are the only countries that have not yet adopted the metric system, using other measuring systems.
There are also the Imperial units and the U.S. system. I don't know if there are any more than these.
In Portugal we use that metric system. In your country, what system do you use?
Do you know other systems? Where (country) are they used?
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
17 Jan 09
in the philippines, it is an odd mixture of the english and the metric system.
when i was much younger, we were so used to hearing measurements given and done in the english system. everyone was talking about the ganta, the inches, the feet, the yard, the gallon, the ounces and the mile.
then, when i was in college, the government had endeavoured to introduce the metric system. they say that it is much easier to use since everything is in the multiples of ten. here now comes the kilogram, the grams, the millimeter, the centimeter, the meter, the liters, the milliliters and the kilometers.
having been so used to the english system, it is not easy to picture measurements given in the metric system. so we have the tendency to convert the figure into the english system in order to be able to visualize the thing in our minds correctly. until now, we are using the metric and the english system here in my country.
