I am thinking of using a hybrid of the imperial and metric systems in my tetralogy as the native measuring system.
For example someone who is 12 feet tall might be told that they are 1.166 decafeet tall.
Someone who traveled 1000 miles might say that they have traveled a kilomile.
And that is just 2 examples. As you can see with this system, metric prefixes are added to imperial measurements.
Time is the only type of unit that won't be affected by this.
Is this a good system? I know there are always going to be the ones that say "no, use one or the other but not both." However this isn't using both really but is using a hybrid of the 2 which is different.
And I can see how people would get confused about things like centigallons and decapounds(kilopound and kilofoot are sometimes used) but if they know metric prefixes and what they mean and imperial units, they can figure out what those measurements mean.
For example someone who is 12 feet tall might be told that they are 1.166 decafeet tall.
Someone who traveled 1000 miles might say that they have traveled a kilomile.
And that is just 2 examples. As you can see with this system, metric prefixes are added to imperial measurements.
Time is the only type of unit that won't be affected by this.
Is this a good system? I know there are always going to be the ones that say "no, use one or the other but not both." However this isn't using both really but is using a hybrid of the 2 which is different.
And I can see how people would get confused about things like centigallons and decapounds(kilopound and kilofoot are sometimes used) but if they know metric prefixes and what they mean and imperial units, they can figure out what those measurements mean.