The debate between metric and imperial measurement systems has gone on for decades, but is one truly superior? This analysis ...

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 metric system revolutionized the world and simplified how we measure things. But one part of our lives never quite got ...

Units of one measure, such as length, increased by powers of ten (millimeters ... but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

Students compare these measurements to national drinking water standards to determine toxicity levels of a contaminant. (Note: National reforms in teaching the metric system call for students to ...

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 ...

Rather, the purpose in granting this power was to facilitate domestic and international commerce by permitting the federal government to adopt and enforce national measurement standards based upon ...

The way EPCs are measured could change to multiple different metrics rather than the current single metric, which the ...