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USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication

Posted by timothy on from the 3-more-years-until-they-hit-a-hectoyear dept.

EagleHasLanded writes "The U.S. Metric Association has been advocating for metrication since 1916 – without much success. In the mid-1970s, the U.S. government passed the Metric Conversion Act, but now it seems the time for complete conversion has come and gone. Or could U.S. educators and health & safety advocates put this issue back on Congress' radar screen?"

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  1. What's the point? by Zcar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    After all, Imperial (in the US flavor) is better for computing than metric since it's at least partially base 2.