which country in the world still using English measuring inch/pound system?
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England for a start. We use feet, inches, pounds, miles and stone, we're rather resistant to the metric system. America uses some of it I believe with things liek miles and lbs but i think slowly they're turning to metric more and more. The rest of Europe is very strictly metric, leading the way is France
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The New Zealand inches are upside down relative to the U.S.A. inches. :-)\n\nIf you define one inch so that one meter is exactly 39.37 inches then you get one length.  If you define one inch as exactly 2.54 centimeters then you get a very slightly different length (do the math).  Both of the above refer to the international standard for the meter, of course.  If there is a difference between the two (besides the upside down thing) then it is probably in which of the above definitions they adopt.
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IT IS ENGLISH(ENGLAND)
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This question is miscategorized.\n\nSpecial Education refers to the education and parenting of children with special needs.\n\nThat being said... the metric system (e.g. kilograms, meters, etc.) was introduced by Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 1800's, because he wanted a standard set of weights and measures throughout his empire.\n\nThe English system (lbs, oz, inches, etc.) evolved during the Middle Ages based on common items used for measuring. For instance, the "inch" was originally based on the practice of using from the tip to the first joint of the thumb as a measure for small items.
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In the UK before 1971, there was a different monetary system in place, with three basic levels - pounds, shillings and pence.\nPence is another word for pennies, or single coins like 1 cent pieces.\nIn the old "Imperial" system, it worked like this:\n1/4 of a penny = farthing\n1/2 of a penny = half-penny (or ha'penny)\n1 penny = 1 "pence"\n3 pence - Threepenny piece (or Thruppenny Bit)\n6 pence - Sixpence\n12 pence = 1 shilling\n20 shillings = 1 pound \nMaking 240 pennies, or pence, to the pound.\n\nThere were other coins amounting to specific amounts within the system. The Florin, for instance, was worth two shillings (or 24 pence). The Half-Crown, just for fun, was worth two shillings and six pence (30 pence in total) and the Crown, understandably, was worth two Half-Crowns (equivalent to 5 shillings, or 70 pence). And finally the Guinea, which was worth one pound and one shilling (21 shillings, or 252 pence)\n\nIn 1971, the UK joined the metric system, based on there being 100 pence in every pound. The currency was also revalued, so that a shilling was now only worth 5 pence, rather than 12, so that there were still 20 shillings in a pound (largely to help people deal with the change when budgetting their weekly shopping!)\n\nAs far as I know the Crown and Half-Crown are no longer in active use - if you think about it, a half-crown, being worth two shillings and six pence, would now be a coin worth 16 pence, which is a little unweildy for shopping purposes. And similarly, the crown, being worth five shillings, would now be worth one pound twenty-five pence.\n\nSo now in the UK, we have the following units\n1p - one penny or one pence\n2p - two pence\n5p - five pence (one shilling)\n10p - ten pence (two shillings)\n20p - twenty pence (for some reason, calling this four shilings hasn't caught on)\n50p - fifty pence (ten shillings)\n£1 - one pound\n£2 - two pounds - the newest coin to be introduced. After this we go to notes, with £5 being the first.\n\nHowever, just to confuse matters even further, you'll still find mention of guineas and crowns in particular settings - several high-profile horse races award prizes in guineas and crowns. But for the majority of the population, they don't exist as actual coins any more. Incidentally, while researching this answer, I've discovered there was also a half-guinea and a five-guinea coin prior to decimalisation. \n\nSource(s):\n\nhttp://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/histdate/...\nhttp://www.simetric.co.uk/si_imperial.ht...\nhttp://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl...\nhttp://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl...
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England is a part of Great Britain.
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That's not exactly true.  Europe has adopted the Euro which is used by all European countries, however Great Britain which is part of the European union has elected to stay with the pound, for now.
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Yes. Nearly the entire world and all of the scientific community use the metric system. In order to foster the idea of globalism in the US we should unify our measurements.
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A long ton is a British measurement and equivilent to 2,240 pounds. Not to be confused with the US "short ton"
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There is a detailed (perhaps too detailed) explanation at the following location:\nhttp://www.france-property-and-information.com/metric-system-and-history.htm\n\nYou will also find at this location several pages which will discuss other aspects of your question.\n\nIn terms of capacity, the metric system and the USA/Imperial systems simply use different units. The situation is a bit more complex for weight/mass. \n\nWeight is how much something ways, whereas mass is the amount of matter. We say that a kilogram (mass) is equal to 2.2 pounds (weight). However, this is true (roughly) only on Earth. For example, something that is 100kg. (220 pounds) on Earth would still be 100 kg. on the moon but only about 37 pounds on the moon. That is because mass is constant whereas weight depends on gravity. For most of this, the distinction is unimportant as we all live and work on the earth. However, scientific purposes (e.g. space travel) weight and mass are very different.
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Germany right now. \n\nClick on the link for updated counts.
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You got it backwards - inches and feet, and quarts and gallons and etc, etc, are practically ancient units that someday, I hope, the metric system will replace entirely.  I don't know why there is so much resistance to this here in the US, but the attempt has been going on for decades.  I'm sick of having to have 2 sets of every type of wrench and socket, and always having to guess which one goes to some particular fastener on my car, which contains some metric, some SAE.
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i was just reading about this issue the other day on a website and would you beleive that america was the first country to want to move to metric system but after a long time of not agreeing on issues it was dropped. it had been discussed on and off for nearly 60 years. nobody still knows why it never went ahead.
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I think the simple answer is because they can't be bothered.\n\nThey have grown up using inches and feet and miles etc and learning a whole new set of units is too much effort.\n\nIn the UK we have been undergoing a process of changeover since the 1830s or so.  Metric units had to be used in schools from the 1950s but still old people use imperial.  The majority of people know about metric but don't use it enough to get used to it.  I have never met anyone who actually knows their weight in Kg.
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That's like asking why the US uses inches, feet, etc., instead of the metric system (which the rest of the world uses).  Basically, it's just because we're the US.  No reason.  But it's too much of a hassle to change, apparently, on both counts.
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I dont know but its messed up that we use that instead of the Metric system, I was born in south africa and I know the metric system and pretty much everyone else too but some ppl here dont even understand their own measurement system
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Both systems are measuring systems which are used in calculations.  The same measuring units for different systems will vary, for example, the standard unit for length is the Meter for the Metric system and the yard for the imperial system (British).\n\nMetric system is a French system.  Many European countries now use this system.\nStandard system, so called, is likely the system your country is using.  It's possible that different counties are using different systems.