NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.

The sunflower is 214 cm tall. Calculate the height of the sunflower in metres and millimetres. There are 100 centimetres in a metre. Metres are larger than centimetres so the number of centimetres ...

sometimes baffling lengths Americans will go to avoid the metric system. Gear up for a rollercoaster ride of measurement ...

In the United States, metric is technically the preferred system, as established by the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, but the imperial system remains prevalent in everyday life. The United ...

Canadians measure weather in Celsius but cook using ... Most of the world uses the metric system. The Americans use imperial. And then Canada uses an unholy amalgam of both. It’s one of our ...

April 1, 1975, was the day Canada gave Fahrenheit the boot and started using Celsius to measure temperature. April 1, 2025, marks 50 years since Canada started measuring temperature in degrees Celsius ...

All words are made up, after all, and the words for measurements are more made up than most. But these words didn't follow the precepts of the metric system, the official standard for demarcating ...

The data was supposed to be in metric units, but it wasn’t ... metric-Imperial amalgam that actually includes more metric measurements than you might guess: We buy soda in liters, we measure ...

A nanometer (nm) is a unit of length in the metric system, defined as one billionth (10-9) of a meter (m). The meter is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), making the ...