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Is there a large contingency of people in the science and engineering world not using metric?

Like a previous commenter said, all my science labs in high school and college used metric. I imagine legitimate research and engineering labs in America are also using metric.



Civil and a lot of Mechanical still use standard. Especially for machining and such. We also used kips (kilopounds) in my Statics class.


Well, it seems that NASA, at least a few years ago, did not consistently use metric ...


NASA may have learned a hard lesson that time.




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