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Originally Posted by fckm
I'm sure that people who grew up with the metric system have just as many "rule of thumb"s as you do.
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Yep! One meter is about the length between my (left) shoulder and the fingertips of my (right) outstretched hand or the height from the floor to my waist. My foot is a decimeter (0.1 meter) wide, and one cubic decimeter is exactly one liter. Our milk comes in one liter cartons by the way. One liter of water weighs one kilogram. One kilometer takes ten to fifteen minutes to walk, depending on the terrain and how much in a hurry you are.
The world of sports is already using the metric system. 400 meters is one lap around the arena, 50 meters is the length of the pool. If you can jump 236 centimeters high you win the gold. The goal in handball is two meters high and three meters wide.