The U.S. government may have backed off of plans to change highway signs to metric distances, but businesses are moving ahead to adopt the world-standard measuring system. In the United States – the ...

THE readers of the article by Mrs. Anderton and P. H. Bigg on ‘The Yard Unit of Length’ 1 may be interested in the results of an investigation following a discussion on metric to inch conversion. The ...

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LONDON — The European Union threw in the towel Wednesday and abandoned its plan to force Britain to phase out the use of feet, inches, pounds, ounces and gallons. The old imperial measures will be ...

PRECISION and fastidiousness – at first blush the quest for a precise system of measurement might seem a plodding pursuit. But as philosopher Robert P. Crease makes clear in World in the Balance, it ...