I recall learning metric.I love how Spiff remarks on Celsius being so British...considering we adopted Farenheit as a measure of temperature. Britain didn't move over to celsius until 1971 when the country adopted decimalisation...I spent my young life at school learning the old £.s.d currency as well as weights and measures in Imperial...not to mention temperatures in Farenheit. I was a very confused teenager who had to mentally calculate everything back into 'old money' to make any sense of decimalisation for quite a few years
Me in the 1970's: "What do you mean there are only 100 new pennies in a quid?...There were 240 of the old ones!.."
Before Decimal Day hit the UK (15th of February 1971) twelve pennies made a shilling, twenty shillings made a pound, hence 240 pennies in one pound...as simple as the twelve times multiplication table we all had to learn back then![]()
Then it never happened over here.
Craptastic.
Base 10 just much easier.