Most of the world measures things using the metric system. Learn more about this standard of measurement and how it is getting more and more accurate.

NOTWITHSTANDING the growing demand in this country for our adoption of the metric system of weights and measures and a decimal system of coinage, the Committee on Commercial and Industrial Policy ...

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As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

On April 19, 1973, Wilson Riles, superintendent of public instruction for California. called to announce that beginning in 1976 the metric system would be taught in California. The reaction from the ...

THERE are probably few readers of NATURE who do not realise that what is being referred to in the Press as “The War after the War” is nothing more than a tardy appreciation of the “war before the war” ...