Metric vs. Imperial brain

[GLC1968]

I'm an EE, and an RF one at that, so I live in two worlds. At work, everything is not only in metric, but it's tiny, tiny metric (pico, nano, etc) or super large metric (giga, tera, etc). At home, I deal with predominantly Imperial (being a stubborn American).

In my world, a meter is a VERY real measurement.

Add to this my obsession with my weight - and I learned quickly to convert food scale weight into cups, tablespoons, etc. Then throw in the need to scale down most 'herd' recipes for our goats (we only have two)...so I need to be able to scale down from gallons and cups into tablespoons and teaspoons without error...and then back into ml and cc for the administering of the dosage.

Honestly, onlineconversion.com is my friend.

[Softie]

My brain does the same thing, and I always measured in metric in school! But I actually have no idea of my weight in kgs or height in cms, as most of my life I've heard those things in lbs and feet/inches, despite being in Canada. I also don't know my cooking measurements in ml (might be because everything I use from cook books is in tsp tbsp cups).

Google has a great function for this. Just open a google search window, type in the amount you have, and it comes up with the equivalent in the most likely form. Ex. if I typed in "84 inches" it gives me an "84 inches = 2.1336 meters". Click the more about calculator and it shows you how to do other conversion options too.