Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...

The U.S. government may have backed off of plans to change highway signs to metric distances, but businesses are moving ahead to adopt the world-standard measuring system. In the United States – the ...

THE readers of the article by Mrs. Anderton and P. H. Bigg on ‘The Yard Unit of Length’ 1 may be interested in the results of an investigation following a discussion on metric to inch conversion. The ...

We've explained dozens of times over the years the difference between P-metric and imperial tire sizes so we won't cover a whole lot of the same ground, but we really haven't published a conversion ...

When it comes to measurement systems, the world largely follows a single standard: The metric system. Yet, the United States ...

We Americans measure things our own way. Our yardsticks are marked in feet and inches, measures that are unfathomable to foreigners, nearly all of whom have been brought up in a decimals-only ...