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This article was originally published with the title “An Ancient Metric System” inScientific American Magazine Vol. 32 No. 7(February 1875), p. 97doi:10.1038/scientificamerican02131875-97d ...

Temperatures were also divided in decimal units, with 0 as the freezing point of water and 100 as the boiling point. In 1866, the Congress and President approved legislation making the metric system ...

The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture ...

To handle an exponential growth in data, the metric system is getting its first update in three decades Based on the measuring system's new prefixes, Earth’s mass is about six ronnagrams. That ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well as evidence of a cult of personality around a particularly charismatic ...

A 600-mile-long network of stone walls along the Nile served as an ancient water management system.

Conservatives in the U.S. set metric education aside in 1982, and this country has been at a disadvantage ever since. I have worked on drawing boards in both systems of measurement.

New unit measurement prefixes are added to the metric system The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about ...

Are Pirates Who Hijacked Measuring Tools Intended for Thomas Jefferson the Reason US Isn't Metric? "This country could have gone metric right from the beginning," the claim goes, "instead of being ...

The UK government said on Wednesday it had dropped its plan to start selling in imperial measures after a consultation revealed 99 per cent support for keeping the metric system.