If you're not used to the metric system, traveling abroad might be a little tricky. Fortunately, there are tips to help you ...

The time has finally come for the metric system’s long-scheduled upgrade. Next week, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) will meet for the 26th time. When it does, it will revamp the ...

IN a circular letter, dealing with the world-wide spread of the metric system, the Decimal Association points out that the time is soon coming when metric usage, instead of being regarded as a ...

Now that the United Kingdom is outside the European Union, it’s reviewing thousands of EU rules and regulations to see which it should jettison. Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system ...

A system of weights and measures that uses the gram, meter and liter as its primary units of weight, distance and capacity. The metric system is the primary standard used all over the world except in ...

The United States could be using the metric system — the universal system of measurement that every industrialized nation uses except the U.S. — if it wasn’t for a bunch of pirates 224 years ago.

A DEPUTATION representing forty-six Chambers of Commerce, announced in these columns a fortnight ago, waited upon Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, on November 20, to urge upon the Government ...