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Are Pirates Who Hijacked Measuring Tools Intended for Thomas Jefferson the Reason US Isn't Metric?
An oft-repeated "weird fact" is the claim that, if not for the scourge of Caribbean piracy, the United States would have adopted the metric system in the 1790s, making it the country's standard ...
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Is The Metric System Actually Better?
The metric system vs. imperial system debate has raged on for years, but is one truly better? From NASA losing a $328 million spacecraft due to a conversion error to ...
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Here's the real reason the U.S. doesn't use the metric system
Metric was officially declared America’s preferred system of measurement in 1975, but the U.S. public has been slow to embrace it. What do Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States have in common?
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Who’s Still Fighting the Metric System—And Why?
It’s simple, it’s global… but not everyone loves the metric system. From historical holdouts to cultural defiance, this video dives into the reasons why some countries—especially the U.S ...
Reader's Digest3mon
Why Doesn’t the United States Use the Metric System?
The answer will definitely surprise you All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one ...
Hackaday1y
A Modernized Metric Clock
The metric system is widely adopted worldwide, but we still use a base-60 system for timekeeping that predates the rest of the metric system. The French did attempt to “decimalize” timekeeping ...
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Metric System Demonstration Apparatus The Origin of the Metric System
In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.
Nanowerk11d
Metric Prefixes
The 20 recognized metric prefixes have been specified by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) for the International System of Units (SI), and are used to make describing quantities ...
The Telegraph2y
Inching our way toward the metric system
Ever wondered what happened to our country’s conversion to the metric system? I did too. So, I did some digging and turned up some dead bodies in the process. Advertisement Article ...
Wall Street Journal2y
Bill Nye: Walk a Kilometer in My Shoes and Go Metric
As an engineer and science educator, I found reading your coverage of the movement to abandon the metric system in the U.K. disheartening (“U.K. Weighs Saying Cheerio to Metric System,” Page ...
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The metric system is growing. Here’s what you need to know
Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Science News spoke with Richard Brown, head of metrology at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington ...