Pedro Martínez: A third of a meter is not 33.33 centimeters. It is 33 and 1/3 centimeters. An eleventh of a kilometer is 90 and 10/11 meters.
Engineer you are I take it? :)

Luke Skywalker: I'll argee that the standard system is nothing if it's not illogical, arbitary, and confusing, but it works. The United States did adopt decimal money in the late 1700's. All on powers of tens: mils, cents, dimes, dollars, and eagles, though just dollars and cents are commonly used. I have heard the English had some wild way of doing their money that probably had its adherents like I am for the standard system and yet it looks like I'm nuts to someone that only uses the metric system. Money is different though. One can go from cents to millions in the same account and all the digits are used. Having different units for each part of the Sterling Pound must've made for a lot of confusion. When one is using inches or millimeters, you rarely need to be taking miles or kilometers into account. And nowadays we have calculators.
I use both systems, since they're both in use here. Beer's in ounces, liquor is sold in milliliters. Hospitals have cc's and grams for most things.

It's easy to convert one system to the other. Calling it a mile or 1.6 kilometers doesn't change how far away something is. The difficult part of converting is the hard conversions. Instead of 12 ounces to 355 millliters we'll make it 300 or 400 milliliters. This type of change requires a lot of money and of course customer acceptance of the different size. I remember when Canada had 300 milliliter size Coca Cola cans. They went metric and now it's 355 milliliters!

<b/>Let's make a Backgammon game based on powers of ten. We can call it Metric Backgammon. Each table will have ten points in it. So the board will have 40 points total. Of course we'll have to use a pair decahedron shaped dice numbered 1 through 10. Wouldn't matter on an internet game site. Should we leave it at 15 checkers per side?