The metric system was introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century, but traditional units for length and weight remained in use.

Shops in the UK could soon be allowed to ditch the metric system of measurements after ministers said they would review the country’s ban on imperial units in the aftermath of Brexit.

All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one major exception: the United States.

The metric system was developed in 18th-century France as a rational, decimal-based system and was widely adopted globally for its simplicity, especially in scientific work.

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Units from the metric system can be used to describe the mass, volume or length of an object. Mass is measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg). Volume is measured in millilitres (ml) and litres (l).

The metric system of measurement was originally established in France in 1790, after which it swiftly swept all of Europe in a multinational effort to standardize measurement across cultures.

The pre-metric system in France was particularly complicated and by 1789 there were at least 800 different units of measurement, many of which varied according to which town you were in or the ...