Canada has been metric for 44 years. Maybe the Canadian contract called for complement of officers and a 450kg of payload and the Americans rather than understand 992lb 1.2 oz...decided to round it up to 1000lbs?
actually, I was always kinda confused by American quarts and gallons etc..so much smaller than the correct (Commonwealth) imperial.
and you were completely familiar with short tons and long tons right?
and of course you know off the top of your head what lb means right?
Base 10 vs base 12? no..metric makes a heck of lot of sense to me
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