Do you know the metric system?
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Liter, like Meter or Gram is the center point of the graph with Metric. It is the Unit or the denominator.\nkilo Meter is 1000 Meters, kilo Liter is 1000 Liters. kilo Gram is 1000 Grams.
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I'm really worried about all you folks who say you learned your incorrect answers in history class.  What are they teaching you?\nThe awkward system of measurement that Americans use was also used by the English until just a couple of decades ago.  It has nothing to do with Americans wanting to be different from the English, or the American Revolution, or anything like that.\nThe metric system was invented by French scientists in the Age of Enlightenment back in the 18th Century when the French (quite literally) worshipped Reason.  (There were even temples to Reason during the French Revolution.)\n During this revolution, in the 1790's, the French instituted the very rational, scientific metric system, in which everything is based on the decimal system.  The basic unit of measurement, the metre, was established by determining the distance between the equator and the North Pole and then dividing that by powers of ten until you got something small enough to be a useful unit of measurement in everyday life.  The gram was established by weighing the amount of water in a cubic centimeter (at least I think it was a centimeter).  In the centigrade system of temperature, 0 is the temperature at which water freezes and 100 is the temperature at which it boils.  Everything is beautifully rational, and therefore good for science, where it is universally used.\n\nThe French Revolution failed but its measuring system lived on, because it was so useful.  The English, who hated the French, refused to adopt their measuring system until they were forced to by the emergence of the Common Market.  Others on this list have accurately given the history of the failure of Americans to convert to the metric system.  But that's how it all began.
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yeah.. what do you want to measure????? be more specific.
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i was just reading about this issue the other day on a website and would you beleive that america was the first country to want to move to metric system but after a long time of not agreeing on issues it was dropped. it had been discussed on and off for nearly 60 years. nobody still knows why it never went ahead.
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Centimeter, millimeter, meter, kilometer, inch, foot, yard, mile.
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Both systems are measuring systems which are used in calculations.  The same measuring units for different systems will vary, for example, the standard unit for length is the Meter for the Metric system and the yard for the imperial system (British).\n\nMetric system is a French system.  Many European countries now use this system.\nStandard system, so called, is likely the system your country is using.  It's possible that different counties are using different systems.
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we are on the metric system. as a child I was told that the whole country would be metric by 1976
225182
There are many systems of measurement for force, ft/lbs, newtons etc. you can define your own if you wish. what is it you are really asking?
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Sure, why not?\n\nWhen someone will introduce the metric method of reckoning time, people will SLOWLY accept it (you know, old habits die hard)...\n\nComputations will be a lot easier by using the metric method...
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While it originated in France, the metric system is based on easily observable phenomena in nature (the meter is a certain number of wavelengths of light, the kilogram is the weight of a certain amount of pure water, etc.) so there is no longer any need to keep a "standard meter bar of platinum" or a "standard kilogram at sea level" anywhere.
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you go on google, find out the meter length of a beverage can\nmultiply that by 1 billion (1 X 10^9 i believe) and divide by 1000 (giving you km)
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That's easy! You measure it with a tape-measure and a stopwatch! Next question.
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This question is miscategorized.\n\nSpecial Education refers to the education and parenting of children with special needs.\n\nThat being said... the metric system (e.g. kilograms, meters, etc.) was introduced by Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 1800's, because he wanted a standard set of weights and measures throughout his empire.\n\nThe English system (lbs, oz, inches, etc.) evolved during the Middle Ages based on common items used for measuring. For instance, the "inch" was originally based on the practice of using from the tip to the first joint of the thumb as a measure for small items.
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There's lots of confusion about different systems of measurement.  For example a US quart is different from an English quart which is differnt again from a litre.\n\nActually the metric system is the official system of measurement of most of the world, including the US, thoug in the US it isn't used much in a real sense.\n\nWhen you say the English system, which system do you mean?  The term can have more than one meaning.  Do you mean the metric system?
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Metric. Thy still use the same ones.
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I teach students who are 11 years old in an American school. By the time they get to me almost all have had experience with measuring with the metric system. \n\nIn the U.S. public school I teach at, we teach both the standard and metric systems.
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No one person invented the Metric System, but it dates to 18th century France.  You're right, we do already have a system, called Standard that has pounds, ounces and so on.  The reason that Metric is prefered (and indeed used by almost all developed nations except the United States) is simple:  How many ounces are in a gallon? How many square feet are in an acre?  How many inches are in a yard?  These questions yeild the following answers; .0078, 2.29 x 10^-5 and 36, not easy numbers to work with.  With Metric, the major marking points are 10, 100, 1000, and so on.  The modern metric system also uses extremely sophisticated ways of getting precise measurements based on natural objects (the size of the earth, the weight of water and so on).