Comment Re:Poor choice of options... (Score 1) 465
I am told that another example of anachronistic measures are houses in Japan. Despite the fact that Japan is as firmly entrenched in the metric system as any country in Europe, houses in Japan are still measured using traditional units based largely on human dimensions (similar to the Imperial system's feet and yards and the like). Someone wrote a book on the subject. The entire first chapter is dedicated to examining the measuring system for Japanese domestic architecture.