Nuts and bolts. SAE, Metric, or both
I been wrenching on vehicles all my life. It use to be only SAE, then it became a mix of SAE and Metric. I thought they we're going to phase out SAE and go all metric at some point, but it seems like ...
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There must be a reason why most of the world adopted metric system, including UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and Australia. Metric system uses 7 basic units for measurement in science, engineering, industry and commerce and all the rest of units are derived from these basic units. Imperial system uses 56 basic units.
The beauty of metric system is the use of multiples of ten, hundred, thousand etc. with metric multipliers like micro, milli, centi, deci, deca, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera etc.
For example one metric ton is 1000kg, one kilogram(kg) is 1000g(gram)
In metric system you are dealing with whole numbers instead of fractions. I will take metric system anytime.
Definition of basic metric units were fine tuned over the years mainly to facilitate verification of standards by any country any time.
The beauty of metric system is the use of multiples of ten, hundred, thousand etc. with metric multipliers like micro, milli, centi, deci, deca, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera etc.
For example one metric ton is 1000kg, one kilogram(kg) is 1000g(gram)
In metric system you are dealing with whole numbers instead of fractions. I will take metric system anytime.
Definition of basic metric units were fine tuned over the years mainly to facilitate verification of standards by any country any time.
