"Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@unixhome.net> wrote in message
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> Anyone in engineering and science had better know MKS. Not 100% sure of
> this, but is not the US the last market on earth using metric? Even the
> British sell gas by the litre.
>

Well we did invent the imperial *and* metric systems.