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The Whole World's Gone Metric? Not according to the United Nations

May 31 2002 at 10:10 PM
T Bennett 

"It would not be practical to show, for each of the thousands of units currently in use, equivalents in all the other systems of measurement" - extract from "World Weights and Measures", published by the United Nations (138pp). This book lists 1,675 non-metric units in common use

From: "A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures", compiled and edited by Vivian Linacre, Director of British Weights and Measures Association (92pp.), price £7 from 0131 556 6080

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