While these three countries continue to use the imperial system, both Liberia and Myanmar are gradually introducing metric ...

Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world went metric. After Great Britain voted to adopt the metric system in 1965, there was growing pressure to make it mandatory in the United States. The Metric ...

No such simple relations existed in standard units of weight and measure among units of length (inches, feet, yards, miles) or among units of length, volume and weight. In other words, the French ...

ON December 1 of last year, the Chinese Government issued a notice to the effect that the metric system of weights and measures would be introduced into the Customs service on February 1.

NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.