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Isn’t it Time for the Metric System to Stop Goiing Around in Circles?


by Philip Yaffe

 

Growing up in the United States in the 1950s, I was used to such things as inches, feet, yards; ounces (liquid and solid), pints, pounds, etc. Then I entered my first physics class and was bowled over by the metric system.

 

 

“My God, this is so much better! Why don’t we use this?” I [...]

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