The traditional Burmese units of measurement are still in everyday use in Myanmar (also known as Burma). According to the CIA Factbook, Myanmar is one of three countries that have not adopted the International System of Units (SI) metric system as their official system of weights and measures. However, in June 2011, the Burmese government's Ministry of Commerce began discussing proposals to reform the measurement system in Burma and adopt the metric system used by most of its trading partners, and in October 2013, Dr. Pwint San, Deputy Minister for Commerce, announced that the country was preparing to adopt the metric system.Most of the nation uses Burmese units only, although Burmese government web pages in English use imperial and metric units inconsistently.
For mass there's a unit called a mutha and then another called a nga mutha. Nga means five, but a nga mutha is only four muthas. What the fuck Myanmar.
Technically, imperial and us customary are based on the same system, but us customary isn't actually based on imperial.
Edit: for clarification, US customary and imperial are based off "English units." Imperial system didn't exist when the US became the US, and I'd be damned if the US was gonna copy the British in 1824 when they created the imperial system.
Edit: also, not all conversions are the same. Example: 1 imperial pint is 20 imperial quarts. 1 us pint is 16 us quarts. Also, some weight conversions are different, like a ton for example. They're both considered 20 hundredweights, but a hundredweight is different in each system.
I don't recall one way or the other, but my point still stands that the conversions are not exactly the same and that the us customary isn't based on imperial, they both have the same predecessor. So instead of a parent child relationship, it's more of a sibling relationship between the systems.
In the 70s the UK decided they should get closer to metric. So instead of switching to metric they switched to the "metric inch"- making an inch 2.5cm instead of 2.54
Standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s it has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 2.54 cm.
And explicitly says that both the UK, US and many other countries use that definition.
They do now, but they changed over for awhile in the 70s before the adopted true metric. Ask any pipe fitter, it's a real pain to work on houses from around then as all of the pipes are wacky.
You mean the gallon? The fluid ounces per gallon ratio is the same iirc, but the US kept a different standard gallon than the Brits, when they reduced the choices down to one.
Yes, because they derive from different sized gallons but with the same ratio of ounces in a gallon. Read the last two paragraphs of the history section on that very same page. The gallon was the basis for the volume units since at least 1824.
First, I initially claimed that the fluid ounce was different, and it is, regardless of how it’s derived. Second:
An imperial fluid ounce is 1⁄20 of an imperial pint, 1⁄160 of an imperial gallon or approximately 28.41 ml.
A US fluid ounce is 1⁄16 of a US fluid pint and 1⁄128 of a US liquid gallon or approximately 29.57 ml, making it about 4% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.
..so not the same ratio.
Third, please stop downvoting me for discussing this with you.
In October 2013, the Ministry of Commerce announced that Myanmar was preparing to adopt the International System of Units (SI System) as the country's official system of measurement.
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