Need help zeroing for meters.

[1911 guy]

And 7,000 grains in a pound. Imperial wins again.

I've got nothing against those who choose to use the metric system. Just realize that it is a base ten system designed for convenience rather than accuracy and quit telling people it's better.

 

[natman]

natman, it's really self explanatory if you compare the two side by side.

How many degrees between freezing and boiling? 180 for imperial, 100 for metric. Which increment is more precise?

The kilo has approximately 2.2 units of measure for every one pound. Which unit has more precision between demarcations?

PSI has approximately a fourteen-fold refinement over kilograms per square centimeter.

I'm a machinist by trade, so let's say i want to bore a 3 inch hole, plus or minus three tenths of thousandth of an inch. 3.0000 +/- .0003 versus 76.2000 +/- .00762.

Sure, if you cherry pick a few examples and ignore things like the kilometer being shorter than the mile.

It's odd that you have no problem with thousandths of an inch, but don't appear to grasp the concept of centimeters, millimeters, milligrams, etc. The metric system has units of measure down to the microscopic and they are all based on the decimal system.

Try figuring out how many 1/16ths of an inch are in a mile in your head.

It's a million times easier in the metric system.