When I was in junior high, I remember my science teacher sounding off about how illogical the American measuring system is. He gave several examples of its absurdity; the one ...

Announcing his quirky run for the White House on Wednesday, Lincoln Chafee may have inadvertently touched one of the more obscure third rails of American politics: conversion to the metric system, or ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "Paul Barnes is being a little hard on Aunty (C8)," thinks Alan Smith of Toowoomba (Qld). "Despite metrication, the imperial foot is ...

HOW right Robin Paice, UK Metric Association chairman, is ('Metrication: decision was made by the Government', Letters , September 29) that "...we need to standardise on one single system of weights ...

The global standard for units of length is the metric system, and the imperial system is only used in a few countries such as the United States. However, the United Kingdom, which is a 'metric' ...

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