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 ...

The US lives in a metric gray area. It has a few laws requiring that consumer goods list both metric and US customary measures, but it still remains isolated in its US customary measures bubble.

Almost 40 years after the 1975 Metric Conversion Act, the head of the U.S. Metric Program explains why change is hard.

THE imperial and metric systems can often cause confusion when it comes to taking measurements. Here’s why we use both systems and how you can convert imperial measurements into metric ones W… ...

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.