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Some Practical Consequences of Going Metric
My recent entry: President Obama, Give Us a Yard and We’ll Take a Meter has generated a fair amount of email (thank you, by the way). Among the comments were concerns about various aspects of doing the conversion, specifically about all that math to go from one system to another. Then there were comments about the realities of conversion. Let me try to address both of those items.
Posted in Gov't and Politics
Tagged area, cm, conversion, cooking, gram, inch-pound, kg, kilogram, kilometer, km, length, mail, mass, math, meter, metric, metrication, metrification, mile, odometer, paper, publishing, shortcut, speed, transition, weight
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