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talideon on May 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: It's time for the US to use the metric system

I don't think you can blame the UK for the imperial system: that goes back as far as Rome at least.

alphadevx on May 30, 2014 [–]

I think you are correct, interesting history here: http://www.metric.org.uk/myths/imperial#imperial-was-invente...

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