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Metric System Revisited
Read more: Metric System RevisitedI’ve posted about the metric system before, and now I want to revisit the topic because I think it’s important to the United States. The US is one of very few countries that don’t use the metric system of measurements for most of the common functions we have. We measure distances in feet and yards…
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The Metric System
Read more: The Metric SystemWhen is the United States going to move completely to the metric system? You know, meters instead of yards or feet, kilograms instead of pounds, grams instead of ounces, liters instead of quarts or gallons, Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. (I’m used to “centigrade” rather than Celsius, but those two are the same thing.) Ninety-five percent…