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U.S. Metric Association (USMA) (1881 words) |
 | Conversions between unit systems are a poor way to learn the metric system, and conversion factors (or numbers converted with inappropriate precision) can make the metric system look complicated. |
 | Metrication in other countries (Which countries are not metric, advance of metric usage in the world, and how several other countries have changed to metric) |
 | Metric signs seen on roads in the U.S. (Some were installed in the 1970s, others are much newer) |
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metric conversion (1148 words) |
 | Metric conversion is one of the ways that you can upgrade your self, your work group, your company, or your nation to the modern metric system. |
 | Metric conversion is almost always a method to delay upgrading to the metric system directly, quickly, and cheaply. |
 | This is the heart of where metric conversion most often happens in companies when they decide to give the illusion that they are about to 'Go metric' while all the time they have no intention of doing so. |