Would it have been better to stay with the British Imperial system of measurement?
The metric system has nothing to do with the introduction of computers, they use the binary system. The metric system has been used in science for a long time now and the reason is that science needed an international measurement system so that scientific results could be shared and verified across the world. BUT, in engineering, the metric system is very weak. The metric system of threads, for instance, is far too coarse for fine engineering, that’s why the BA (British Association) thread is used in electrical instrumentation and BSF (British Standard Fine) is used where very thin metal is required to take a thread. If you have a piece of metal that is one millimeter thick, and you need to have a threaded hole in it, the metric system is no good because you wouldn’t get more than one turn of thread in it, whereas the imperial system would provide the ability to have many more. Plumbing also has its own BSP system . Thread profiles change with the aformentioned systems too. Road vehicl
