Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

On 21-10-2024 09:21 pm, john larkin wrote:

 
We follow SI rules in engineering, but in everyday life the quirky old
stuff is sort of fun. We measure distances in blocks or football
fields and fluid volume in olympic-size swimming pools, or sometimes
acre-feet.
 
 

You use your states as units too. I wonder how many Americans actually
know how big "half the size of Oregon" is. :)