GBs Are Units of Measure, Too
While the ISU–and NIST for that matter–is really clear on this (I, too, have read the documents), the fact is that separating …
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President Obama, Give Us a Yard and We’ll Take a Meter
For all intents and purposes, the United States stands alone in relying on an inefficient and antiquated measurement system. For decades the cry has been that it will be too expensive or too inconvenient or too confusing to change to the worldwide metric standard. With the current economy in dire straits, can we really afford this ridiculous policy? Not only does it makes us look like provincial boobs, but (and this will get people’s attention) it costs us money. If ever there was a golden time to attack the problem with a bold mandate for change, this is it.
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Myanmar. Liberia. The United States. Out of 193 countries in the world, these three hold the distraction of continuing to clutch onto the antiquated avoirdupois system of measurement as their standard. While we easily accept that there will always
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