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Effective July 1, 1959, the United States and countries of the British Commonwealth defined the length of the international yard to be exactly 0.9144 metres.[1] Consequently, the international inch is defined to be equal to exactly 25.4 millimetres.
Yep. It's an inch. It's defined by the metric system. That's hilarious.
The U.S.A is one of three countries in the world that don't use the metric system. The other two are Burma and Liberia.
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The MCO MIB has determined that the root cause for the loss of the MCO spacecraft was the failure to use metric units in the coding of a ground software file, “Small Forces,” used in trajectory models. Specifically, thruster performance data in English units instead of metric units was used in the software application code...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/NATO_7.62x51.jpg/300px-NATO_7.62x51. (broken link)
7.62 mm.
In many respects we are metric. Much of industry works with metric specifications and a lot of product labels are metric. Just look at the "nutrition facts" on the back of any food product package. All in metric.
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Originally Posted by Jaggy001
In many respects we are metric. Much of industry works with metric specifications and a lot of product labels are metric. Just look at the "nutrition facts" on the back of any food product package. All in metric.
<snip>The U.S.A is one of three countries in the world that don't use the metric system. The other two are Burma and Liberia.
Didn't know there were two other countries still using the antiquated systems of measure, I
thought only the USA was behind in the times, thanks for the info.
In many respects we are metric. Much of industry works with metric specifications and a lot of product labels are metric. Just look at the "nutrition facts" on the back of any food product package. All in metric.
I agree. I use metrics every day at work and in much of every day life. As I believe most people do.
I remember being in elementary school and being told that we will become all metric one day.
My kids came home and told me their teachers said the same thing......
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