Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Science News spoke with Richard Brown, head of metrology at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England, ...
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America Might Be Metric and No One Wants to Admit It
A new review of U.S. infrastructure, science, and manufacturing reveals that America relies heavily on the metric system ...
An oft-repeated "weird fact" is the claim that, if not for the scourge of Caribbean piracy, the United States would have adopted the metric system in the 1790s, making it the country's standard system ...
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