H ave you ever noticed that systems of measurement tends to change when you leave the United States? Weight is typically ...

Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...

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 ...

On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...

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.

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.

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 ...

A nanosecond (ns) is a unit of time in the metric system, equal to one billionth (10-9) of a second (s). The second is the base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), making the ...

Get ready for a wild story featuring angry farmers, lawbreaking butchers, constitutional lawsuits, a 'freedom' gallons-only gas station — and the unquenchable Canadian spirit of patriotic ...

To celebrate, let’s take a trip through the history of how we came to know and love this metric unit of measurement. This journey actually started in 1742, when astronomer and geographer Anders ...