My friend - you need not a school since I shall teach you the logics behind metric.
There's 3 different units, one for length, one for weight and one for volume. These are meters (or m), grammes (or g) and litres (l).
Lets look at length; the meter.
a thousand meters are in a kilometer (km) (since a kilo = a thousand in french)
a hundredth of a meter is a centimenter (centi = 100th in french)
a thousand of a meter is a millimeter (milli = 1000th in french).
Everything is divisible by 10 and works exactly in volume and weight as is does in length.
so.... for example if I were say a peice of wood is 40cm by 20 we'd all know instantly that it is..... yes you've guest it..... 0.4m by 0.2!
I dont see why you blame the EU for this anyhow.... my history books tell me it was back in 1965 that Metric was added to British law whereas we joined the EU in 1973.
- if you have a spare few minutes please read
http://www.ukma.org.uk/why/myths.htm
sorry for the sarcasm easrlier in my post.... It's been one of those days
