PROVISION is niade in these tables for the range of equivalents likely to arise in commercial dealings between this country and others using the metric system.” The calculations are based upon figures ...

Down at the local pub, die-hard Brexiters will be raising a pint to news that the U.K. is eyeing the end of a European Union-inspired ban on selling products in pounds and ounces. But many others view ...

Here’s a good trivia question: What are the only 3 countries in the world that do not use the metric system? Everybody knows the good ol’ hard headed USA is in there, but the other two? How about ...

A unified measuring system allows people from different nations to trade with one another without doubting what they are getting. Many attempts to make units of measure standard have come and gone ...

May is a month full of celebrations—everything from May Day and Cinco de Mayo to Mother’s Day and Memorial Day. Largely forgotten in the cornucopia of May celebrations, however, is National Metric ...

A group of English traders, known as the Metric Martyrs, have had their appeals to the European Court rejected. The campaigners from Cornwall, Sunderland, London and Surrey, were convicted for selling ...