Conversions between metric system units are easy because the system is based on powers of ten. For example, there are 100 centimeters in 1 meter, 1000 meters in 1 kilometer. Conversely, there are 1 ...

The metric dimension is a key invariant in graph theory that encapsulates the minimal number of reference points, or “resolving sets”, required to uniquely determine the position of each ...

I’m including it here for those who, like myself, are metric conversion disadvantaged (see box). Hopefully, after making the conversions for a long enough time, one can begin to have the internal ...

The strongest push in the U.S. actually came at the start of the 20th century, Alexander Graham Bell, and other notables testified at congressional hearings on metric conversion.

Some strongly opposed metric units, and many were content to use familiar measures. Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world went metric. After Great Britain voted to adopt the metric system in 1965, ...