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The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can't stop fighting the metric system
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Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between “traditional” and “progressive” values. This is an extract from James Vincent's book Beyond Measure, a history of measurement.
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