For nearly a half-century, the doyenne of decimals has helped lead the crusade for Americans to chuck their yardsticks in favor of the metric system. Her 94-year-old metric association, founded at ...

The metric system is comprehensive, consistent, logical and used around the world. The metric system is a decimal system, it is easier to learn than the non-decimal U.S. system.

NOTWITHSTANDING the growing demand in this country for our adoption of the metric system of weights and measures and a decimal system of coinage, the Committee on Commercial and Industrial Policy ...

Temperatures were also divided in decimal units, with 0 as the freezing point of water and 100 as the boiling point. In 1866, the Congress and President approved legislation making the metric system ...

The metric or decimal system was first known as the 'system of the tenth' and its appeal is its simplicity - everything is easily divisible by 10. Advertisement.

Metric system was one line in Chafee's speech but will be the top line. ... Even France, the brainchild behind decimal-based measuring, adopted its own metric system in fits and starts." ...

It has been stated over and over again that German firms have been ousting British trade in many countries by issuing price lists containing quotations in the metric system of weights and measures.