Talk:United States Customary System

Merge or Redirect
Merge with US customary units ... better still, I'm making this page a redirect. I'll move the old content here just in case. Jimp 9Sep05

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Definition
As defined by Conceptual Physical Science Explorations (Hewitt, Suchocki, Hewitt) - "Based on the British Imperial System, the USCS is familiar to everyone in the United States. It uses the foot as a unit of length, the pound as the unit of weight or force, and the second as the unit of time. The USCS is presently being replaced by the SI (International System) - rapidly in science and technology (all Department of Defense contracts since 1988) and some sports (track and swimming), but so slowly in other areas and in some specialties it seems the change may never come. For example, we will continue to buy seats on the 50-yard-line. Camera film is in millimeters, but computer disks are in inches. For measuring time, there is no difference between the two systems except that in pure SI the only unit is the second (s, not sec) with prefixes; but in general, minute, hour, day, year, and so on, with two or more lettered abbreviations (h, not hr), are accepted in the USCS." (page 738)

Fun Facts

 * Formerly called the British system of units.
 * Only used in the United States of America, Liberia and Myanmar. The rest of the world uses the SI (also called International System, or, commonly, the Metric System).
 * One USCS foot is equal to 0.30480 SI meters.
 * One USCS mile is equal to 1.60934 SI kilometers.